RE: Array question

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Two good(?) uses, a short list of values that never (tee hee) change like an
array to convert month numbers to month names, and error messages, function
key lists, or window titles for a short screen program.  Lately I've been
using constants for the error messages, function key lists, and window
titles, though.  

-----Original Message-----
From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 5:01 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Array question




Booth wrote:
>An example of a pre-execution array might be the States of the Union.
>That is fixed and you know right now what they are, so go ahead and load
>the array now and save some time and overhead later on.  An execution time
>array might be states in which customers live. Until you read the
>customer's address you won't know which states to load, so you have to
>fill that array while you are executing the program.
>
>
>In <199905031408.WAA07035@public.sta.net.cn>, on 05/03/99
>   at 09:59 PM, "Shen Jianjun" <ipacsjj@public.sta.net.cn> said:
>
>>How can understand the Pre-execution time array & Execution time array?
>>Could you give me one simple example?

BTW, the politically correct terms are "prerun-time array" and
"run-time array".  We haven't used the word "execution" in our
manuals in at least 15 years.

Do programmers still use prerun-time arrays in new apps?

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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