Re: How do you pass an omitted parameter to a procedure?

Vern,

I do not remember since when I use the '*' and how I got the idea or read
about it. I almost forgot the '*omit' and honestly I love the '*' because
for me it makes the source code easier to read. But maybe that is
something special to me and my colleagues.

I just sent an e-mail to IBM and asked them to change the compiler
although that causes a lot of work for me and my colleagues. I am pretty
sure that IBM will not change RDi, but living with that inconsistence
between the compiler and the syntax checker of RDi is no option for me.

Thank you for sharing your opinion with me.

Thomas.

rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb am 04.07.2013 17:26:44:

Von: vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
An: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
Datum: 04.07.2013 17:27
Betreff: Re: How do you pass an omitted parameter to a procedure?
Gesendet von: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx

I have to ask - how did you ever think that an asterisk is a substitute
for *OMIT? *OMIT has been documented ever since it first appeared.

Now I may have missed something.

But I vote for NOT changing anything here, rather fix RDi to do the
right thing.

I don't consider the compiler to need any fixing -working as designed.

JMHO
Vern

On 7/4/2013 5:15 AM, thomas.raddatz@xxxxxx wrote:

This is a survey that I started as a result of an APAR that I opened

at

IBM. The actual problem I have is that RDI 9.0 issues a warning for

the

following statements and therefore does not automatically refresh the
"Outline" view.

sendMessage(*: THIS); // - unexpected token(s) ignored
sendMessage('Hello': *); // - unexpected token(s) ignored
sendMessage(*); // cannot detect whether or not it is
// a procedure call or an indexed array
sendMessage(); // legal statement

Now IBM says that the compiler causes the problem, because actually it
should not accept the '*' as a replacement for '*omit'. Finally they

asked

me whether or not I want to open an APAR to fix the compiler. Since
changing the compiler would cause a lot of work for us I am not sure

what

to do and I like to know whether or not you were affected when IBM

changed

the compiler.

Please select:

[ ] Not affected, let IBM change the compiler

or

[ ] STOP, never change the compiler

Feel free to add additional comments.

Thank you.

Thomas.


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