Re: New Opcodes - %SETCELL

[John P Carr <jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Kement said;

<SNIP>
>I *do* like the idea of a more RPG-friendly interface for the IFS,
>BIFs that do the same functions as the existing IFS API, with the
>added capability of being able to read a single "line" of text from
>the IFS (one of the options on the open command should be whether it
>uses DOS, UNIX or Mac end of line sequences) but these should NOT
>have to do things like parse XML, BIFF (Excel format), or any other
>application-specific file format.
>
>Also, I *DO* like the idea of higher-level I/O being handled thru
>a service-program, or a similar "shared library" type of support
>for the application-specific file formats like Excel.  This would
>greatly reduce the NIGHTMARE of trying to deal with the bazillions
>of different formats out there.
 
<SNIP>

Thank you Scott.

This is the type of dialog I hoped would follow.    I don't want %GETCELL
either per say.   I said that just to get people thinking "Out of the box".
Although I don't know what harm there would be in 
providing specific interfaces to certain file types.    

I mean,   It's not like this is an OPEN - RUN ON ANY MACHINE - 
type of a language to begin with is it??

Only slightly kidding.

Lets get creative & practical in our requests to Toronto. 

John Carr


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