RE: Bale, Dan

Scott,

That will work, most of the time. I interpreted Paul's post to mean return a 
negative 
value.  As far as I know there is no all encompassing numeric format so even  
returning a negative indicator will be a problem.  The only sure fix is support 
for 
parameterized types, which would remove many of RPG's limitations.

David Morris

>>> Smildenber@Washcorp.com 03/07/00 11:40AM >>>
David,
        You don't need all that if you define the parameter as const.  Then
you can pass any numeric to the procedure and it will work fine.  I just
wrote a quick little procedure and it worked passing it a packed, integer,
and float type field.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris [SMTP:dmorris@plumcreek.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 10:53 AM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com 
> Subject:      Re: Bale, Dan
> 
> Paul,
> 
> I would really like to be able to create a Negative(numval) subprocedure,
> but it can't be done effectively 
> without additional compiler and operational descriptor support.  The only
> alternative today is to create 
> a routine for every numeric format or a conversion routine, and pass the
> attributes of the numeric variable. 
> So it would have to be something like: 
> 
> Negative(numval:'P':%len:%decpos)
> 
> David Morris
> 
> >>> pcunnane@learningco.com 03/07/00 01:39PM >>>
> >I was hoping to find something like this...(kinda like the way a chain
> works
> >then use the %Found trick)
> >
> >        If      %Negative(My_Numeric_Varriable)   
> >        Then do something
> >        EndIf
> 
> If you really want to do this, just code a Negative() subprocedure...
> 
> -- 
> Paul Cunnane
> Mattel Interactive
> 
> 

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