Re: Dim a byte array.

"Rick Rothstein [MVP - Visual Basic]" <rickNOSPAMnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:eG1CMg2
> LOL. Look, I worked for the same company for 32-1/2 years before
> retiring...
> how do you think I could have managed that without using some creative
> coding techniques across the years.<vbg>

My employer specifically asks me to write unmaintainable code. Not in those
exact words of course but discourages documentation or any form of
standard/coordination/communication between developers. :-)

> Okay, look... the first code I posted was in response to Randy saying it
> couldn't be done in one-line of code. Now, as anyone who has followed my
> posting history on these newsgroups knows, that was a challenge I just
> couldn't refuse.<g> The second piece of code (which I issued a
> correction/clarification for by the way) was an extension built on top of
> the first piece of code. As to maintainability or even readability... the
> OP
> asked for a one-line piece of code for a problem that had a very simple
> multi-line solution... with a request like that, readability and
> maintainability were apparently not high on his list of concerns.... so I
> didn't let it bother me either.<bg>

I realise most of the posters here wouldn't use the techniques they posted
but it looked like Boki might be taking the ideas seriously :-)

Michael


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