RE: Year 2000

On Wednesday, June 11, 1997 2:45 PM, boothm@earth.goddard.edu 
[SMTP:boothm@earth.goddard.edu] wrote:
> One really great feature though, is the   test(d)   opcode.  Testing 
dates
> has never been easier.   Of course that opcode is available for any
> typical date field, not just Ldate fields.  It sure makes it fun & easy 
to
> delete whole subroutines and called programs that we've used to validate
> dates in the past.

Booth,

I agree 100%.   But my point was that if a numeric field that is used as a 
date value, contains a zero, then you can't simply "port" that to date 
fields unless you change your logic. True the TEST(D) operation can check 
the field for a valid date value, but if it is zero, you'd have to alter 
the rest of the application system's logic. That is that value (0) cannot 
be put into a date field.


Bob Cozzi
Bob@rpgdev.net
http://www.rpgdev.net


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