Re: It's That Time Again! The 2002 RPG Enhancement Poll

Jon,

I actually missed the original list posting...and since multi-D arrays has
historically had red-headed bastard stepchild treatment that would make
Cinderella's evil sisters look like benevolent angels, I figured I would
bring it up on its own...  :)

I heard nested arrays was going into 5.2...but then, since the great minds
at IBM that are giving everyone 5.2 announcement info just can't seem to
get past the 890 annoucement, VERY FEW IF ANY have the damnedest clue
what's in 5.2 and won't really for a while....kinda sucks on IBM's part,
but oh well...:) ...and I've been too heads down in a 400 > AIX
conversion to look at the manuals on the IBM website...do have them
downloaded...at least the ones that are there....:)

Don in DC

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On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Jon Paris wrote:

>  >> Can I put in my request, again, for multi dimensional arrays please?
>
> I'm baffled as to why you guys are asking for this when it is already on the
> voting list ????? Did you miss it?
>
> Also to some extent you already have the feature in V5R2.  Certainly as much
> as I personally think is worth spending money on.  The major shortfalls are
> that it is slightly more work to code than a simple multi-dim is, and that
> all of the RPGisms like MOVEA don't work with the support.  But since I
> never use them anyway .....
>
> Two level is simple to code and use:
>
>      D Level1          DS                  Dim(20)
>      D   Level2                       9p 0 Dim(12)
>
>      C                   Eval      Level1(X).Level2(Y) = 0
>
> Only gets messy when you want 3+ levels.
>
>
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
>
>
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