Re: Type mismatch not being caught at compile time...

I have always felt that what you have here, while technically incorrect, is outside the compiler's area of responsibility... Responsibility lies with the developer.

The "list of keys" (as referred to in the ILE RPG manual) seems to be treated similarly to a VALUE or CONST in a parameter list. The value will be reformatted if necessary to meet the requirements of the file description, and the operation will continue. In fact, that's one of the beautifull things about this (way-too-long-needed) method of access.

"Bryce Martin" <BMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So I think I have a type mismatch that should be caught at compile time

that isn't. The code has worked for sometime now and we just
discovered
what we thing "should" have been a compile error. Source compiles
fine,
program runs and acts "as expected". The problem comes in with a
logical
being used.

Field Defs.
QuoteNumber 9a
ItemNumber 15a
Quantity 11s 3


The logical is OEBOML1 with the following key...
OQUOTE 6a
OPROD 15a
OPQTY 11s 3
OSEQ 3s 0
OERQT 9a
OQTLN 3s 0

OQUOTE is the first 6 characters of the QuoteNumber - anyway... I have
this statement....

setll (QuoteNumber:ItemNumber:Quantity) oeboml1;
reade (QuoteNumber:ItemNumber:Quantity) oeboml1;
dow not %eof(oeboml1);

What I'm thinking is that I should get a compile error since
QuoteNumber
is 9a, not 6a. Shouldn't this be a key mismatch error?

But it doesn't error out. And, on top of that, when I run the code it
acts a I would "want" it to and finds the quotes properly.... at least
as
far as I can tell....

I'm really stumped as to why this "works".... any thoughts?


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
570-546-4777
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