RE: Record name the same as the file name

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Hans Boldt
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 9:42 AM
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Subject: Re: Record name the same as the file name


Booth Martin wrote:
> But, can you rename it from something different TO be the same as the file
> name? (That is how I read Bob C.s message)

Hans wrote:
>Allowing record names to be the same as file names would require a
>major rewrite to the handling of files and records in the compiler,
>with implications throughout the code, as well as the rules of the
>language.

>I'm not saying it can't be done. It's just that it involves one heck
>of a lot of code change in the compiler, and the only advantage to
>the RPG programmer is that she can avoid one RENAME on the F-Spec.

how does that email expression of mock puzzlement go?  Is it "Huh?"

RPG procs need to be improved so that file declares can exist within the
scope of the proc, right?  Where a file can be declared at the proc level
and auto opened and closed as the proc is entered and exited. ( just like
the way files declared at the pgm level behave ) Also very useful would be a
file handle returned by the open of a file that can be passed from proc to
proc and used for i/o against the open of the file the handle represents.

Since procs already ( guessing ) have an automatic storage environment that
they operate in, the data structures of a proc declared file could be
implemented within that auto storage arena, completely bypassing the archaic
static structures of program declared files.   What this buys is the near
zero need to change existing file i/o compiler code as the new proc declared
file i/o code is added to the rpg compiler.

I appreciate the constraints that the rules of the language impose, but can
it be argued that proc rpg is capable of being a programming language onto
itself, with language rules that only have to apply to itself?  After all,
ILE is capable of stiching procs of different languages together.  Adding a
new "proc rpg" language to the mix would not be a problem for ILE.

-Steve