RE: Compile failed when try to do return not SUCCESSFUL where SUCCESSFULis declared as const

To the best of my knowledge you cannot define an indicator constant.

And I cannot think of any reason why you would want to define one. There are
only two that you could define and they are supplied by the figurative
constants *On and *Off.

In your example, why can't you just return *Off?

Regards
 
Paul Tuohy
ComCon
www.comconadvisor.com 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Lim Hock-Chai
Sent: 05 May 2006 18:00
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Compile failed when try to do return not SUCCESSFUL where
SUCCESSFULis declared as const

D SUCCESSFUL      c                   const(*on)         
D proc1           pr              n                      
                                                         
C                   eval      *inlr = *on                
 *------------------------------------------------------ 
 * test return with not SUCCESSFUL                       
P proc1           B                                      
D                 pi              n                      
                                                         
C                   return    not SUCCESSFUL             
P proc1           E                                      

 
I'm getting this:
Msg id  Sv Number Seq     Message text

RNF7421 30     12 001200  Operands are not compatible with the type of
operator.

 
If I changed SUCCESSFUL to be a variable, it compile ok.   Any reason
why I can't do "return not constBoolean"?