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  3. December 2005

Re: RPG-III to -IV conversion rehash worries

On 12/15/05, Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> Your field is 5 bytes long and 6 bytes long respectively and will handle
> values along the lines of 99,999, and 999,999.  You would need to try and
> set Five = 100,000 or greater to achieve what you want.


But what good is that if it isn't detected until runtime?  Are you
suggesting that the compiler would flag a statement  "Eval Five = 100000"?
I just tried it, and the compiler doesn't flag anything.

I already know what will happen if I try to run it.  I just thought the
compiler would warn me.

- Dan

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