chicken and egg Tables
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Re: chicken and egg Tables
Thank you, Hans. It is also the 66th anniversary of our arrival in Southern Cross!
Cheers, Chris
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Re: chicken and egg Tables
>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
>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
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Re: chicken and egg Tables
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.
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.
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Re: chicken and egg Tables
e by gum
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Re: chicken and egg Tables
Agree Alan.. I'ts one of the progrmming laments.. "but I didn't touch that"!!
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Re: chicken and egg Tables
There's nothing heavier than an empty water bottle
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Re: chicken and egg Tables
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.DocAElstein wrote: ↑20 Jun 2022, 12:26I always thought relaxing the syntax was usually a false economy, even when text storage size might have been of an issue.
Cheers, Chris
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Re: chicken and egg Tables
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
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
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Re: chicken and egg Tables
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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Re: chicken and egg Tables
Maybe an alternative:
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