RE: ILE conversion

You mean the same way CRTRPGMOD INDENT(' ') works?

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> From:         Schenck, Don[SMTP:Don.Schenck@WL.com]
> Reply To:     MIDRANGE-L@MIDRANGE.COM
> Sent:         Wednesday, September 06, 2000 2:39 PM
> To:   'MIDRANGE-L@MIDRANGE.COM'
> Subject:      RE: ILE conversion
> 
> I'm curious:
> 
> How many people have "hacked" the RPG ILE compiler message file to allow
> you
> to indent the opcodes?
> 
> I have; anyone else?
> 
> 
> -- Don Schenck
>    Schenck Technical Consulting
>    DonS@SchenckTech.com / www.SchenckTech.com 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Fritz [mailto:JFritz@sharperimage.com]
> Sent: September 06, 2000 1:47 PM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@MIDRANGE.COM'
> Subject: RE: ILE conversion
> 
> 
> I hadn't thought about the conversion, but I've noticed that I'm having
> more
> and more trouble doing maintenance on RPG Classic code.  I ask myself
> things
> like "What's this IFEQ opcode?" and other silly questions.  I tend to
> convert everything I need to change more than a few lines of code on.
> That
> way I'll at least understand my modifications as well as I ever understand
> my modifications.
> 
> Admittedly this is like reading Chaucer with parts machine translated into
> modern English, but I'm willing to bet that if there are future
> generations
> of RPG programmers, they'll probably not do too well with RPG Classic.  I
> think I'd want some sort of compulsion/coercion to do a wholesale
> translation on entire systems, though. 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stone, Brad V (TC) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:09 AM
> > To: 'MIDRANGE-L@MIDRANGE.COM'
> > Subject: RE: ILE conversion
> > 
> > 
> > ILE calls to subprocedures are faster than OPM calls.
> > ILE (done right) will teach you basics if you want to learn OOP.
> > ILE service programs make updating systems easier.
> > Learning is good.
> > 
> > Brad
> > If the new AS/400s run Java fast, just think how fast they'll run RPG!
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Don [mailto:dr2@cssas400.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:50 AM
> > > To: Graves, Chuck
> > > Cc: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> > > Subject: Re: ILE conversion
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Chuck,
> > > 
> > > pardon my ignorance, but why are you changing the programs to 
> > > "ILE"?  Is
> > > there a reason beyond "political correctness" to do so?
> > > 
> > > Frankly, I submit that unless there's a good reason to goto 
> > > the new format
> > > (additional functionality being my #1, followed by needing access to
> > > additional data types) you should NOT convert them.  
> > They're smaller,
> > > smaller source, and probably load and run faster as it.
> > > 
> > > You may want to do some benchmarkers there dude...ILE does 
> > > have a cost,
> > > IFF indeed you're just moving up to move up...
> > > 
> > > Don in DC
> > > (Waiting for Jon's blast...:)
> > > 
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