RE: CF-Spec - another call for opinions

Hey,

Haven't you seen a lot of RPGII code? They use of # and @ is field names are
everywhere!

No offense to anyone, but in an RPG IV program this would be a very
amaturistic technique. Granted the 6-position field name limit RPG II/III
caused some pretty creative programming activity, but we don't have name
length limits anymore.

If you really need to use #, perhaps we should require that all opcode names
begin with @ and all field names begin with # that way procedure names could
begin with any other symbol, and built-in functions would begin with %.
Hans would be able to write the CF-spec stuff parser even faster.  Hey, why
not just port the Spreadsheet language (ala VisiCalc) to the AA/400 and call
it RPG IV with CF-specs.  :)

Bob Cozzi

http://www.RPGIV.com




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> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 4:55 AM
> To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: CF-Spec - another call for opinions
>
>
> I'd like to add my vote for option 2, and agree that dropping the
> requirement for 'CF' would be good.
>
> As an aside, some people suggested using '@' as a delimiter: it's always
> best to avoid using '@', as it's not in the invariant character set.
> This means that if you load your code onto a machine with a different
> CCSID, you can get all sort of distressing syntax and/or compile errors.
>
> This can be quite a problem when you do client-specific customisation to
> a package, and have clients all over the world.
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin.
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