RE: Additional RPGLE Enhancement Request

[Brian Johnson <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah!  Sounds kinda like COBOL:

01 fld1.
 02 fld1a.
  03 fld1a1 pic x(1).
  03 fld1a2 pic x(1).
 02 fld1b  pic x(1).

fld1 is length 3, fld1a is length 2.

No offense, Hans, but I really like the new D specs because they are   
closer to COBOL (and others) when it comes to flexibility in describing   
data.  No about those multi-dimensional arrays...

PS

It's been at least 5 years since I coded any COBOL so my little sample   
may not be syntactically correct, but I think the idea is sound.

PPS

It is not my intention, nor my desire, to start a "language war".   
 Matching new information to existing, well-understood patterns is an   
excellent learning device.
 --
Brian Johnson
Help/Systems, Inc.
brian@helpsystems.com


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From:  Charlie Massoglia
Sent:  Thu, Jul 17, 1997 1:13 AM
Subject:  Re: Additional RPGLE Enhancement Request

Original Subject:
Re: Additional RPGLE Enhancement Requests

<...>

>I just had another wild and crazy idea:  How about if we implicitly
>define overlayed subfields with the appropriate length to contain all
>overlaying subfields?  (I'm not sure if I can convince the rest of my
>team on this one, though!)
>
Hans, could you please explain this further, perhaps with a sample.  I'm   
not
sure what you mean.


Charlie Massoglia, Massoglia Technical Consulting, Inc.
PO Box 1065, Okemos, MI 48854, USA
517-676-9700  Fax: 517-676-1006  EMAIL: cmassoglia@voyager.net

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