RE: FW: Have you seen this? An improved way.

I was not speaking for myself; I recently rewrote tons of code removing the
dependency on operational descriptors. I use/used them all the time. I was
talking about the masses in general.
Of course as with all generalization, it does not apply to everyone.  For
example "everybody hates Microsoft Windows" is a true statement as a
generalization but is not 100% true. It is only true as long as one lives in
a fishbowl and knows no one who actually likes Windows.  
-Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Douglas Handy
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:25 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: FW: Have you seen this? An improved way.

Bob,

>but fortunately virtually no one uses Operational Descriptors anyway. 

Speak for yourself; though I don't use them as much as I did prior to
varying
length field suport.  Or as much as I would if they handled more than just
character fields.  I used OpDesc quite routinely in V3R2 level service
programs,
some of which I still use now.

Doug
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