RE: What bugs you about KLISTs in RPG IV?

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Hans,

At 09:50 AM 6/15/99 -0400, you wrote:
>The main thing  that has bothered me
>about KLISTs is that they are necessary at all! If we weren't
>limited to 14 chars in Factor 1, we would be able to list the
>keys directly in the CHAIN opcode.  Imagine for a moment:
>
>     cf   chain (custno: acctno: date) mastfile
>
>or even:
>
>     cf  chain (prodno: 'X' + subcode(n+14)) mastfile
>
>In other words, full expressions coded directly as key fields
>for the keyed I/O operations!
>
>So todays questions are:  Would you take advantage of this if
>available?  Would you still use KLISTs?

 Absolutely!!  It always bothered me that you often had to search in some
other area of the code to see what the CHAIN / READx key elements.

 -mark

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