RE: what is unclear about 01 02 03 -Reply

That is really sick. Named indicators here I come. Thanks for the tip.

-Walden

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From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Simon Coulter
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 1998 6:07 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: what is unclear about 01 02 03 -Reply


At the risk of boring the enlightened and irritating the benighted ...

Comments should illuminate not reiterate.  Tell me WHY you did something not
what you did.  The what should be
obvious from the code (although some of the examples posted here give the
lie to that).  The why is rarely
obvious.

Anyone still using the *INKx indicators needs their head read.  Maybe the
geezers instantly know which key
*INKP is but there are more obvious ways;  Assigning *IN01 to *IN24 to the
function key is more obvious due the
mnemonic relationship between the key and the indicator.  Better yet is to
use the AID byte from the feedback
area and avoid the indicators entirely.  Besides you simply don't need to
use all those indicators.

Named indicators are already available in RPGIV with pointer support.
Simply code the following:

D @Indicator        S                  *       INZ(%ADDR(*IN))
D Indicators        DS                         BASED(@Indicator)
D  SflInz                                51  51
D  SflClr                                52  52
D  SflDsp                                53  53
D  SflDspCtl                             54  54
D  SflEnd                                55  55
D  SflNxtChg                             56  56

Then you can do things like:

C                       IF      SflRRN > *ZERO
C                       EVAL    SflDsp = *ON
C                       ENDIF
C                       EVAL    SflDspCtl = *ON

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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