David,

I saw it only in part. Thought it was aimed at the other stuff. My mistake.

Cheers


>Jim, you couldn't see the tongue in my cheek!
>I hate llRetVal!
>My point was; what could be more clear than:
>

>FUNCTION Myfunction
>RETURN Blah1 OR Blah2
>

?
>>Hi David,
>>
>>Obviously the originator didn't understand the construction observed.
>>
>>It is for that reason that I will generally expand it along the lines that Craig did - why waste anyone's time trying to figure out something can can be expressed much more clearly?
>>
>>In your second example, though, it is the "llRetVal" that always irks me. What *real* use the "ll" has in there always eludes me. I think that ReturnValue is much clearer. We know returns are logicals and we can be careful to declare it local too. I don't know where a non-local would have much use on a RETURN, really.
>>
>>JimN
>>
>>
>>>Hi Craig,
>>> you know I'm feeling narky today so why not...
>>>

>>>>X = BOF() OR EOF() OR THIS.TOPFILE
>>>>IF M.X = .T.
>>>>   THIS.TOPFILE = .T.
>>>>ELSE
>>>>   THIS.TOPFILE = .F.
>>>>ENDIF
>>>

>>>It just takes up that extra line :-))
>>>But seriously, I often see code in production like your example and wonder "why?"
>>>BTW, I know it was meant to explain to Todd what was going on, so I'm not having a go at you.
>>>
>>>I really love this sort of coding...
>>>

>>>FUNCTION Myfunction
>>>* This function returns true if either or both Blah1 or Blah2 are true.
>>>LOCAL llRetVal
>>>llRetVal = .F.
>>>IF Blah1 OR Blah2
>>>   llRetVal= .T.
>>>ELSE
>>>   llRetVal= .F.
>>>ENDIF
>>>RETURN llRetVal
>>>

>>>I've seen that so often! ROFL!
>>>
>>>In any case
>>>THIS.TOPFILE = THIS.TOPFILE OR EOF() OR BOF()
>>>would normally be best, since it may reduce the overall number of function calls.
>>>
>>>
>>>>It can be rewritten as
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>IF BOF() OR EOF() OR THIS.TOPFILE
>>>>   THIS.TOPFILE = .T.
>>>>ELSE
>>>>   THIS.TOPFILE = .F.
>>>>ENDIF
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>>This statement is contained in a class generated through the Application Wizard.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>THIS.TOPFILE = BOF() OR EOF() OR THIS.TOPFILE
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I have never seen a statement setting a variable/property = something with additional 'or' conditions.
>>>>>
>>>>>Could someone explain?
>>>>>
>>>>>Many thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>Todd