Re: V5 - RPG announcements?

John wrote:
>Great job!

Thanks!

>I hope the next version includes qualified procedure names, and qualified
>field names. When the number of procedures in your system starts numbering
>in the hundreds, then thousands, keeping a unique namespace across the
>entire system becomes more than just a minor inconvenience.

Simple qualified subfield names are in V5R1.  That is, code keyword
QUALIFIED on a data structure definition, and the subfields are
referred to as "DSNAME.SUBF".  "Simple" means just that, with no
whitespace allowed between the two names and the dot.

A related enhancement that you should get to know very well as you
learn V5R1 is keyword LIKEDS.  A data structure or procedure
parameter defined with LIKEDS inherits all the subfields of the
other data structure.  So you can define data structure A as
qualified with subfield X and data structure B as LIKEDS(A) with no
subfields, and you can refer to subfields A.X and B.X.  The
advantages of LIKEDS used with procedure parameters should be
obvious.

I agree that some sort of packaging mechanism for modules would be
a good thing to help manage name conflicts.


Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com

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