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On 13-Mar-09, at 11:19 AM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Interesting point Scott, but I assume IBM had reasons for it. Does
anybody (Jon, Barbara) know why?
Rochester decided that CLLE would handle indicators (i.e. a single
char) in the same way that C did. It made sense because after all
everybody knows that there are so many more C programmers than RPG and
that they don't understand anything about handling parameters or other
complicated stuff - so it was important that their job should be as
easy as possible even if it made it harder for those few RPG and COBOL
folks out there.
Yeah - right.
The reasoning was beyond my comprehension. If I recall correctly, the
fact that it was being done this way was not that obvious from the
documentation that we reviewed and so it didn't raise a flag until it
was too late to turn the ship.
Jon Paris
www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com
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