Re: The future of RPG

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Could it have been the other way around?  File names passed as parameters?

Or could they mean that the file itself (not just the file's name) can 
be passed as a parameter?

Christen, Duane J. wrote:
> Parameters as files, to me, would mean a file discriptor capability similar
> to C, which allows you to pass a file discriptor (pointer) to a file to
> another procedure which can then perform some operation(s) on the file.
>
> Duane
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David Gibbs
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 1:05 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: The future of RPG
>
>
> Folks:
>
> I just got out of George Farr's presentation on the future of RPG.
>
> A few points I thought worth reporting ...
>
> 1. He hinted at a name change ... although he bandied about the name
> 'Jello' :)
>
> 2. Some of the things he mentioned *might* be in V5R5 (which was pretty
> much confirmed as the next release of OS/<insert name de-jour> at the
> opening session) are: Multi-threading & parameters as files (although
> I'm not 100% what that means).
>
> david