General HydroStatics Ship Stability Software

Command of the Week (New or interesting aspects of GHS that you may not know about)

SET-free variable assignments (Requires GHS version 17.34 or later)

Ever get tired of typing curly brackets? These paired brace chars "{" and "}" have always been needed to retrieve the value of variables in GHS. So if you wanted to SET variable A equal to the sum of variables B and C, you'd have to wrap braces around both B and C to get their values:

SET A = {B} PLUS {C}

Things got better in version 17.30, which introduced symbolic expressions inside braces (as seen in COW185). This means you only need one pair of braces per expression, instead of needing braces around every variable:

SET A = {B + C}

But now in the latest GHS, you don't need any braces at all to make this assignment:

A := B + C

In fact, you don't even need the SET command! Any assignment of the form:

SET variable = "{expression}"

...can be abbreviated to:

variable := expression

Using the ":=" assignment mark, GHS has been SET free!

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