RE: Please vote for Syntax check in /FREE!

The only enhancement RPG IV needs to make it more usable today is to allow a
COMMA to be used as the parameter separator. No single thing causes me more
delays in development than this one "feature".  I would give up function
overloading, semi colon at the end of statements in free format, and a bunch
of other things for this one capability. 
Oh for the days I could write:

   Callp   GetLibInfo('QGPL',nObjCnt, nLibSize)
Instead of...

   Callp   GetLibInfo('QGPL':nObjCnt:nLibSize)

Even today, I still enter a COMMA, compile the code, then have to figure out
what the error is telling me (because it never says COLON missing from
expression) it says things like "expected token not found" or "right
parameter missing from expression" and I look at the code (with the COMMAs
in it) and it looks perfectly fine to me, then I realize, COLOTIS is the
cause the problem
Bob Cozzi
Cozzi Consulting
www.rpgiv.com


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Raul A Jager
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 10:58 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Please vote for Syntax check in /FREE!

Me to.

Joel Cochran wrote:

>Thanks Hans,
>
>Like I told one of my programmers, I'll spend my $100 bucks AND hers to
>get procedure overloading!
>
>:-)
>
>Joel
>http://www.rpgnext.com
>
>
>On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:06, Hans Boldt wrote:
>  
>
>>Joel Cochran wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I looked for the "Procedure Overloading" entry in the database but could
>>>not find it, does anyone have a link where I can vote for this? 
>>>Preferrably a million times :-)
>>>
>>>Joel
>>>http://www.rpgnext.com
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Joel: If we do that traditional RPG enhancement poll again, you'll 
>>have your chance to vote on it. But personally, I think we have 
>>enough good polling data to last us a couple more releases. For this 
>>item in particular, we do indeed already have a very good idea how 
>>popular it would be.
>>
>>Cheers! Hans
>>
>>
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