Re: Date variables in Xy III -- DATE.PM Attached

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from marc@xxxxxxxx on Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:20:11
+1300 (NZDT)


> I'm not sure who / what is MBO. My name is Marc - from a small rock in the
> South Pacific called New Zealand

That was the handle of a guy named Marc O'Connor, I think was his name, also
from NZ. Used Xy3, talked a bit like you (e.g. "certinally"). Long ago...
Just a shot in the dark...

> why are the programs you have (as well as the
> examples from XYQuest) all crammed up together

Because Xy3 is short on memory -- the buffer fills up fast, and OOM soon looms
(OutOfMemory). Because Xy3 has no native comment mechanism (cf. ";*;" in Xy4).
Because putting a  after a  does not strike me as a logical or
aesthetical way to aerate code -- it looks (and is) silly, arbitrary, and
unstructured. Because "readability", to me, is much more a matter of having
sensible Save/Get numbering (starting at 01 and moving up in increments of 1)
and LaBeling (LBA, then LBB, then LBC...) than of "open space". As for
commenting or explicating code like last night's example, it takes an insane
amount of time.

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Robert Holmgren
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