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Hi Jim,
From: Jim Langston <jlangston@conexfreight.com> > Unless there is some underlying reason to use Clear insead of *Zero > or *Blanks I think it's just a syntactical choice. With Clear, if a field's type is changed from character to numeric or vice versa, you don't have to hunt down your eval's or z-add's or move's and change them -- just recompiling the program will use the appropriate value. Of course, if you do make such a change, you'll undoubtedly have a whole boatload of other things to worry about too. Just a thought. Another thought is that I haven't seen anyone mention whether EVAL X =
*ZERO generates anything different than Z-ADD *ZERO X or CLEAR X, or whether
there's any performance difference between EVAL, Z-ADD or CLEAR. Peter Dow Dow Software Services, Inc. 909 425-0194 voice 909 425-0196 fax > +--- > | This is the RPG/400 Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com > +--- |
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