Right. I never thought of that angle: checking for null and making the
counter numeric to prevent any further equality.
On 06/28/2016 10:31 PM, Michael Harding wrote:
pipe literal *|dup 8|spec if #0=='' then set #0:=-5 else set #0+=1 endif
print #0 n|Cons
-5
-4
-3
pipe literal *|dup 8|spec if #0=='' then set #0:=-5 else set #0+=1 endif
print #0 n|Cons
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 13:26:02
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Mike Harding
z/VM System Support
> From: "John P. Hartmann"
> To: CM
As an aside, PATTERN has ONCE, but I suppose I'd forgot about it when I
got to that point with SPECS.
On 06/28/2016 09:36 PM, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
How the heck do I set a nonzero initial value?
#0 will never become positive. Is that what you wanted?
On 06/28/2016 09:36 PM, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
if #0=='' then set #0:=-12 else set #0+=1
Oh, I did mean = rather than ==, but both will work as an uninitialised
counter contains NULL rather than any particular value and NULL will
compare to 0 and to an empty string.
(I've been doing too much C lately.)
On 06/28/2016 09:36 PM, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
and never thought to examine
On 6/28/2016 1:58 PM, John P. Hartmann wrote:
> specs if #0==0 then set #0:=1;#1:=42 endif
> On 06/28/2016 06:13 PM, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
>> How the heck do I set a nonzero initial value?
Aha, I missed:
> The counters are initialised to contain a null value
and never thought to examine t
specs if #0==0 then set #0:=1;#1:=42 endif
On 06/28/2016 06:13 PM, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
In saving an example for myself, I thought I'd reproduce NUMBER FROM
using a counter, given that:
NUMBER is a convenience; the same result can be obtained by
incrementing a counter.
How the hec
In saving an example for myself, I thought I'd reproduce NUMBER FROM
using a counter, given that:
> NUMBER is a convenience; the same result can be obtained by
> incrementing a counter.
How the heck do I set a nonzero initial value? I thought BREAK
