Re: Constant arrays

I guess the main reason I said "ick" was the limited space on the D-spec. I also don't like all of the quotes and colons (though, it _is_ consistent with the other keywords.)

In my mind, I was comparing it to CTDATA, where you can have the entire source record to denote the inz data, and you don't have to fool around with quotes or colons. That really makes it easy to read/understand. (Though, one thing I don't like about CTDATA is that it starts in column 1 rather than column 6.)

The solution with the "dummy" fields that are INZ() separately is nice because you use a separate line for each value, so "column cram" is a smaller issue.

I do like INZ() better than INZARRAY(), for that same reason -- less column cram.


On 4/2/2011 7:23 AM, Barbara Morris wrote:

On 4/1/2011 5:19 PM, Alan Campin wrote:

Would be nice if IBM would just give use an INZARRAY keyword.

InzArray('*PGM':'*SRVPGM':'*CMD':'*FILE')

On 4/1/2011 6:29 PM, Scott Klement wrote:

Ick.

Why ick? I don't think a new keyword is needed; INZ could do fine, just
with a new rule that allows multiple values for arrays.

It wouldn't be great for longer values, but that's true of all INZ values.

D arr s 100a dim(2)
D inz(
D 'I must go down to the +
D sea again, +
D to the lonely sea +
D and the sky,' :
D 'And all I ask is a tall +
D ship and a star +
D to steer her by,')