Re: Data Structure Constant

Bruce,

You can do this:

D forever c '1'

dow forever;
...
enddo;

but you cannot do this:

D forever c *ON

dow forever;
...
enddo;

I suspect that's what you were thinking -- you can't do the latter because the length of *ON varies depending the size of the field, and since "forever" isn't defined with a particular size, you can't use *ON here. But you can define it as '1' without any problems.



Bruce Guetzkow wrote:

Kurt:

I clearly must be hallucinating, because I could have SWORN (and probably will again) that I tried it with a constant and it wouldn't compile. I changed my variable to a constant, ran a verify, and got no errors on that line. Plenty of other errors, but that's another story...

Thanks for setting me straight. I obviously need to imbibe much more...

BTW, I still like your idea and your reasoning for it.

--Bruce Guetzkow