At first I was aghast that you were comptemplating dropping certain RPG
op codes like DOWxx and IFxx. But then I realized that you were planning
on leaving the IF and the DOW codes, just using the format found in ILE
versus previous levels of RPG. Free format this way would be okay. It
would be nice to have more room to do the eval operations. I format my
CL using ideas gleaned from News/400, (and place thumbtacks on chairs of
those who 'prompt' it and screw it up). You bring up some valid concerns
with the MOVEs and the arithmetic operations. The ADD was nice for the
implied factor 1 is the result field but I pretty much use the eval statement
now.
Biggest problem I had with the old rpg/free is that the code development
was done on the PC and it didn't have the locks on it like SEU. Also what
if the developer has it on their PC for days and you need to make a change?
And for a quick change would I have to download it to a PC? What about
IBM's release upgrades - how fast would enhancements be implemented?
Yadda, yadda, yadda. That version of RPG/free is dead in my book.
Anyone who preaches about it is preaching only to the choir since no one
would go that way with the new CF spec. Or if they just had to tie up
their time by going GUI they could use CODE/400. Let's move on and push
the new ILE RPG.
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