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Date:	Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:57:57 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: PL/I most important statement (was: call(TZ) ? - PL/I)

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Lynn H. Maxson wrote:
>
> I used to enjoy your tormenting of Steven Levine.
> Now I see you are an equal opportunity employer.

I'm sure that Steven is enjoying the blood pressure rise which I'm
bestowing on you.

Have the two of you considered ganging up on _me_?

> you are in your usual game of playing moving target

I'm just stating the facts.

> To answer my question about the importance of marking the
> beginning and end of calculation sequences here in includes
> the sequence of calculating the dynamic dimensions. That
> means the following:
>
> [code example here]
>
> You can't because it doesn't work. It doesn't work for the
> very same reason of allocation and deallocation that the
> begin-end sequence works for you in the instances you use.

You mean these programs that I've been using, especially the big one
that does optimization, really doesn't work?

And to think I've trusted my entire financial soundness to this "code d'
PL/I"! Why, it's probably just giving me back some random values based
on whatever previously occupied memory, and I was *trusting* it! Oh,
that nefarious PL/I!

I am thrilled, THRILLED, that you've pointed out the truth here -- that
my programs do not work!

Just for the record, you have your dimension determination located in
the wrong block.

> If and when you ever get to list processing,
> I will be among the first to insist that you
> do it with begin-end sequences.

I've done list processing. But I didn't use BEGIN blocks.

I used Pascal.

- Peter

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