RE: DDS Support

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 boldt@ca.ibm.com wrote:

> 
> Why can't users (I believe you mean programmers) write their own
> opcodes?  Well, strictly speaking, they can.  Study up on
> procedures in ILE RPG.


OK, so I'm writing functions vs. opcodes...Hmmm...not exactly what I had
in mind, but at least I have the flexibility in the functionality...vs.
multi-d arrays, which I don't have at all, and have to emulate...like
functions...Hmmm..could always write a function to return a multi-d cell
content...but nothing like eval x=matx(x,y,z) ** 2 +....

Hans, et al, I think the reason you don't see the request for multi-d
arrays in RPG in "polls" is because MOST RPG programmers don't know what
they are or how to use them.  As has been stated by better minds than
mine, if you were to build this stadium, they just might come to it...:)

What would be interesting is to poll folks if they know how to use
multi-d's and what they are...because I don't think there's much doubt as
to their usefullness and effeciency...

Don 

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