Barry, EQUATES happen at compile time not run time and MUST proceed their use. Many programmers will put them inside a never used IF statement like:
IF 0 THEN EQU ... EQU ... EQU ... ... END This does help while debugging and stepping through a program and might even be faster to execute. Thanks, David A. Green DAG Consulting -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Brevik Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 6:11 PM To: U2-users (E-mail) Subject: [U2] [UV] Question about EQU I inherited some code and I noticed that the programmer consistently placed his equates outside of the program flow, in other words, the equates would never be executed. Nevertheless, the DO get evaluated. For example: LABEL1: FOR I = 1 TO 10 PRINT 'HELLO WORLD' NEXT RETURN EQU THIS TO THAT, YIN TO YANG LABEL2: I = 1 LOOP I += 1 WHILE I LE 10 REPEAT RETURN See how the EQU would never be "executed"? Since it works, I assume the tokenizer reads the whole program and picks up the equates, but what I want to know is, is there some reason for doing it this way, perhaps better performance or less memory used? Barry Brevik ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
