RE: XPL FUNCTIONS

["Beeson, Douglas" beesond@xxxxxxxx]

Just a comment from an outsider on this henpecking. There are too
few birds left in the rarified air of XPL programming for you
code writers to start shooting each other down. Ceaseless
repetition of CI commands or not, beginners like me learn from
the ideas posted here. I'll take them any way they come so,
please, potential flamers: smile, take a deep breath, and
refrain from hitting 'reply.' Or else keep it off-post.

Thanks,
Doug Beeson beesond@xxxxxxxx
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From: nsivin
To: xywrite
Subject: XPL FUNCTIONS
Date: May 3, 1995 07:58




XY-> I found today that David Auerbach wrote yesterday: "[ ... I]t struck me [ .
 -> ] that the XPL program with all the CI commands in it was a little primitiv
 -> and hence subject to the "multi-pass" criticism. But that was a criticism o
 -> the programmer and not of XPL which permits doing all that in one pass; it
 -> does after all have the `contained in' operator. [ ... other patronizing
 -> advice clipped ]

 -> apologize.     --Annie


A ceaseless iteration of ci commands is more typical of a
beginner's discovery of the scroll lock key than a seasoned user,
Annie.

Why didn't you just use ci with a variable? It would've looked
much more elegant even if it did exactly the same thing.

 --Chet

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