Van Snyder writes:
> The answer affects my development strategy: Should I write
> call copy ( x, y ) ! Copy y to x
> or
> x = copy(y) ! Create a copy of y and assign it to x
>
> The former avoids the question, but is not as clear as the latter (does
> it do x=y or y=x?), and therefore has a potentially higher maintenance
> cost.
This doesn't answer your question, but you can increase the clarity of
COPY by using keywords. For instance
call copy( SOURCE = x, DEST = y ) !
-robert
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