Re: Key List in 'D" spec

Oh, well, yeah, that I knew. 8-)

And I think he's right, it should be in the D specs.  One of the things I live 
about RPGIV is being able to declare the S type of the D spec
for all my variables.  Now I don't have to search all over the code to find out 
how a variable is declared, I know where it is.  And there
are no longer problems with declaring a variable twice.

When I first started to program I hated having to declare variables (ala Cobol, 
Pascal, etc..) and thought it was a waste of time.  Until the
first time I got so confused as to how a variable was defined.  I then started 
declaring my variables in Basic, where it wasn't required at
all.

I think they did a good thing by allowing the use of the D spec to declare 
variables, and, yes, I think that all types of declarations should
go there, such as KLIST.  I mean, what would be so hard to use a DS structure 
as, say, a KL structure for keys?

But then, are KLISTs even *really* required?  Why can't we just use a named DS 
structure?  Or are they saved differently in memory somehow?
yes, I know we can't use them because it won't work, my question is, why don't 
'they' get it to work?

Regards,

Jim Langston

HwaRangRon@aol.com wrote:

> Brad,
> I think he meant dead in the since the code is not actually executed. I think 
>he's right, KLISTS belong in D specifications, not C specs.
>
> Ron
>
> In a message dated Fri, 10 Sep 1999  9:52:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>"Stone, Brad V (TC OASIS)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com> writes:
>
> > A "dead" command?  Oh boy.. here we go again.
> >
> > I suppose ADD is a dead command too because we have eval.  Well, what if you
> > are incrementing a counter that you want to loop back to zero after it
> > maxes?  With eval, error.  With add, overflow and no problems.
> >
> > Please, don't start calling commands dead.  It's silly.  RPG is supposed to
> > be a dead language.  (haha!)  But it's still used.
> >
> > Bradley V. Stone
> > BVS/Tools
> > http://www.bvstools.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: rbrightman@amclog.com [mailto:rbrightman@amclog.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 8:01 AM
> > > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> > > Subject: Key List in 'D" spec
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Does anybody know why RPG designers don't have 'key lists' in
> > > 'D' specs? It
> > > seems to me that 'C' specs should only have "active" commands
> > > in them. Key list
> > > (KLIST) is a dead command.
> > >
> > > Rick,       Atlanta
> > >
> > >
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