Reply to post: Re: Obligatory Pedant

Summer's here, where's Windows 10 19H2? For Microsoft, spring ends whenever the heck it says so stop asking

JulieM Silver badge

Re: Obligatory Pedant

It's reading the value of Windows each time at the beginning of the loop; and as long as this is one of those system pseudo-variables that BASIC used to use, and responds to other pseudo-variables being written, it will work.

Actually, maybe the pseudo-variables update asynchronously and the redundant pre-increment copy is a cunningly disguised clock slide ..... and a nice little trap for the unwary future maintainer!

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