Re[2]: New Opcodes - %SETCELL

     Strikes me as the sort of thing that belongs in a library function 
     (which could be implemented as a service program):
     
       eval  mycell = GetCell("/test.xls":"r1c1")
     
     IMHO, a BIF should reflect a need that a *large* proportion of RPG 
     programmers will have.  BIFs for every conceivabe esoteric application 
     don't seem workable to me.
     
     Just my EUR 0.02.
     
     ____________
     Paul Cunnane
     The Learning Company


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Subject: Re: New Opcodes - %SETCELL
Author:  John P Carr <jpcarr@tredegar.com> at InterNet
Date:    06-09-99 12:15 pm


     
     
        >> I know it's not realy the way you want to do it, but just a
thought.
     
        Right,  It's not what I want.   There's a lot of ways to fudge it.  
        I want the RPGIV language to actively participate in the IFS 
        world directly.   Every new product (Application) that is comming 
        to the AS/400 will be in the IFS.   RPGIV needs to address that 
        fact.   
     
        In VA/RPG we have DDE direct link to active spread sheets. 
        I would like some "Native"  ability to update a Stream File 
        in the IFS.    I can personally get along with out having 
        yet another native DB2/400 chain opcode
     
        What I would like is "New" built-in  functions like 
        %GETCELL  and %SETCELL etc.   
     
        What "New" and exotic functions would you all like??
     
        John Carr
     

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