Re: Move an entire record format as a whole

Hans,
I'm for all the BIF's we can get, but is there anyway you could get the
debugger to display their values?  Same question for the return value of a
user-written procedure?
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From: boldt@ca.ibm.com <boldt@ca.ibm.com>
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, July 08, 1999 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: Move an entire record format as a whole


>
>
>Bob wrote:
>>Yes, the ability to read into a data structure would be good. Much more
>>important to me that CF... :)
>
>So far, it looks like most people like the idea, so I'll add
>it to our "proposed enhancements" list.  Ooops - it's already
>there!  (Thank Jon Paris).  You should see it in our next
>enhancement poll.
>
>Regarding the infamous CF-Spec, it's already done.  I had that
>one mostly coded even before I was scheduled to start on it!
>We've had a bit of design churn on it, but the effect of that
>was more new BIFs in the language.  V4R4 ended up with 38 BIFs.
>So far, we've added another 30.  I'm trying to convince everyone
>here that we should add another 8 so we'll be able to say we've
>doubled the number of BIFs!
>
>It's actually not as impressive as it sounds, though.  Almost
>all of these new BIFs simply duplicate function previously
>available only in opcodes.
>
>>I guess fundamentally, it would work like the program described files do
>>today,
>
>Of course.
>
>>but also allow the ability (maybe in phase 2) to read into the DS
>>without using the Input spec area. That is it would allow use to define
our
>>Input data with D specs.
>
>Do you mean "locate mode"?  We've been brainstorming various
>ideas here for a while, including that one.  But we've seen no
>clear consensus on what a "phase 2" would look like yet. There
>is still lots of design work to do on a "phase 1" for this idea.
>
>>Of course I wouldn't expect, nor would I want, you
>>to implement all that RPG cycle stuff from the Input specs in the D-spec
>>implementation.
>
>Of course!
>
>(Hmmm, on the other hand, how about some new BIFs: %LVLBRK,
>%MATCH, etc? :-)
>
>Cheers!  Hans
>
>Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
>
>
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