Hans' bag o' tricks

[Colin Williams <Williamsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Hans, are there any other useful little tricks like this that aren't
in the manual?

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>From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 6:02 PM
>To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
>Subject: RE: [Re: RPGILE V4.3 Gotcha]
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>Colin wrote:
>>I have to say that I agree with Hans.
>>
>>What do you mean you shouldn't have to read the manual. They are there
>>to be used, there's nothing embarrassing about refering to the manual,
>>and I can't understand why some people think there is.
>>If I hadn't picked up the CL manual all those years ago, I'd probably
>>still be an operator today.
>>
>>How do you learn new tachniques, without reading up on areas that you
>>are not currently using.?
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>Well, to be fair, there are some tips that aren't mentioned
>in the manual that perhaps should be.  Such as checking for
>message 7551 in the compile listing to see if any expression
>is dropping any decimal precision.
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>Also, if you don't want to look at the compile listing after
>every compile, you could always "CHGMSGD MSGID(RNS7551)
>MSGF(QRPGLEMSG) SEV(30)" and your compiles would always fail
>whenever you code an expression where decimal precision is
>lost.
>
>Cheers!  Hans
>
>Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
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