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From: rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (robin)
Subject: Re: Leading zeros with Int_IO.Put()? Or another package?
Date: 1996/11/22
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	ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:

	>rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (robin) writes:

	>>Now why would you bury a picture specification in a remote place from 
	>>the output statement that uses it?

	>In order to be close to the *variable declarations* it will be used with.

That's back to front, isn't it!  A layout isn't
used with variable declarations, it's used with I/O
operations.  So it's logical that that's where it should
be.

	>>Thank you for proving the point!  PL/I's

	>>   put edit (d) (P'-999,999,999');

	>>is a lot simpler.

	>NONONONO!  It's *SHORTER*, is all.
	>"Shorter" and "simpler" are very different things.

I said "simpler" because that's exactly what it is.
It's clear and simple.

	>Richard A. O'Keefe