Re: %lookup -- RPG400-L

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On Monday, April 19, 2004, at 08:09 AM, M. Lazarus wrote:

I strongly agree. But there are actually an additional 5 forms of lookup - %TLOOKUPxx! I see no reason that we (or the compiler) needed that variation.

Oh, so special handling for tables (which probably shouldn't be allowed in free-form). Like I said "Where will it end?" -- it obviously isn't ending!

Perhaps this is like the lines-of-code measure? If your productivity is measured by lines-of-code you write lots of code. Perhaps the RPG team is measured on number of 'new' functions?

Or perhaps it is a marketing requirement: VRMxyz has 10 new built-in functions! when it really has only two (with five variants each). Bah!

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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