RE: How about in INC opcode

["Schenck, Don" <Don.Schenck@xxxxxx>]

In RPG/free (remember?), I would use

INCR   FieldToBeIncremented

and/or

DECR   FieldToBeDecremented



That was 1991 <g>.



-----Original Message-----
From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: March 07, 2000 10:52 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: How about in INC opcode




L.S. wrote:
>I know I could say;
>C             eval     X = (X + 1)
>
>but it would be cool to say;
>C             inc      X
>or
>C             inc(2)   X

We're always open to suggestions!

The idea of an increment operator (like C's ++) has
come up before.  But we're rather hesitant to add that
to the language because of the problem of side effects,
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