chicken and egg Tables

[HansV]

Happy birthday, Chris!

[ChrisGreaves]

Happy birthday, Chris!

Thank you, Hans.

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It is also the 66th anniversary of our arrival in Southern Cross!
Cheers, Chris

[SpeakEasy]

>VBA allows a statement such as
>x = x + 1
>which is mathematically incorrect too...

Heh! Ignoring the possible interpretation that it is a Boolean proposition resulting in False (and thus allowing even more incorrect-looking - but legitimate VBA - statements such as x = x = x + 1) in this case it only seems incorrect because Microsoft relaxed the syntax. That used to be

Let x = x + 1

which is much more obviously an assignment

[DocAElstein]

I always thought relaxing the syntax was usually a false economy, even when text storage size might have been of an issue. Just personal choice, Let it be, I say.
Using relaxed syntax I find very useful for getting some ideas developed quickly, but using it later, whilst rarely causing problems, when it does cause problems, the problems can be quite awkward or hard to track down.

[LisaGreen]

e by gum

[LisaGreen]

Agree Alan.. I'ts one of the progrmming laments.. "but I didn't touch that"!!

[StuartR]

x = x + 1 approaches True as x approaches infinity

[ChrisGreaves]

x = x + 1 approaches True as x approaches infinity

Next Week: #DIV/0

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Cheers, Chris

[ChrisGreaves]

I always thought relaxing the syntax was usually a false economy, even when text storage size might have been of an issue.

Agree wholeheartedly. Your statement was true in the mid-60s when the operation code of the IBM 1401 Add instruction (represented as the letter "A" in memory, and equivalent in value as a positive-signed value of 1 (12-1 punch on a Hollerith card)) was used as the value to increment memory by one. Cute, and it saved a character location on a 16K character mainframe, but really only that one character for every loop that needed to increment a counter by one. A single DW (I think) declarative to set aside a single character holding "1" would have sufficed for every program ever written in Autocoder.
Cheers, Chris

[LisaGreen]

YAY!!

I'm happy to report that the pretty userform and the hammer did it's trick. And she was quite impressed with the rubber ducks as well.. especially when they talked to each other. No.. I wasn't joking about that!! LOL!! I have a big blow up hammer that I use. It does break the ice.. well the conversational ice anyway.. Aaaand two rubber duckies. I get people to "talk" throuugh the rubber ducks and introduce them to talking to it as well. Sometimes it actually works!!

And just to say thank you for your answers again.. Thank you!!

Lisa

[ChrisGreaves]

I'm happy to report that the pretty userform and the hammer did it's trick.

Congratulations Lisa. I am a sucker for a pretty uniform, but especially big hammers.

"Use a bigger hammer" is always offered as advice in mechanical situations.
Cheers, Chris

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