RE: CF-Spec - another call for opinions

[John P Carr <jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Taylor; Said;
>You cannot take an RPG II program, change the source type to RPGLE and
>compile it successfully. You need to run it through a converter first.
>Similarily, you could have a converter for free format RPG that could check
>for naming clashes.


HOLD THE PHONE, NATE,    No one said anything about this @#$ being a new
source type.  This better not be a RPGII to RPGLE CVTRPGSRC implementation 
type of deal with yet another new compile command.

  The last I heard you could do;

C       MYSUBR  BEGSR   
C       KEY             CHAIN   FILE                    
CF      IF  %FOUND
CF      EVAL    SOMETHING = 'SOMETHING REALLY BIG'
C                       ENDIF
C                       ENDSR


Whether you would code a mixed set of C's and CF's  better not stop 
people from doing it who want to.   

Some shops may want to use CF's  for JUST long  EVAL's and nothing else.

I think yous guys better really,   REALLY think about this and ALL the
ramifcations 
you can right now.   Never,  Never that I can remember, all the way from RPG
II on the Sys/32-34
till now  with RPGIV,     Have I brought up a  source member that compiled
yesterday,  
that won't compile today because some new keyword was added.  

To a lot of people,  it doesn't make a rats #@@ difference if on MS or VB
you have to 
Change, recompile, Rebind, Relinkedit, or what they have to do everytime
they make
an "Enhancement".   One of the strengths I thought we were buying (have
always enjoyed) 
on the AS/400 is that kind of stuff  didn't happen.

Yous guys better really think,   And get lots of opinions,  maybe even
outside this list.

John Carr  CDP
IBM Certified RPG systems type guy



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