Re: SUBFILE FOR NON DISPLAY PROGRAMMING....

["James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@xxxxxxx>]

Ron,

Now,  I'm not picking on you, it's just your post in this thread that I hit the 
"reply" button on ...

IMHO, the choice of arrays, MODS, disk files, etc. falls into two camps.

Memory centric (arrays .. PC) or single level storage (OS/400). BTW, my PC has 
more memory than most of my clients AS/400. =:-o

Under memory management, user  space, arrays, MODS that are memory centric may 
wind up on disk as memory gets swapped.  But then again disk centric processing 
could be in memory as a function of cache.  Go figure.

It depends.  There is no single answer.

I don't know if I would call this a "big shortcoming" of RPG.

IMO, that's sort of like a demolition person choosing a tack hammer over all 
the choices offered then faulting the hammer for being inappropriate to the 
task at hand.



>
> This is a big shortcoming of RPG in my opion. There's really no reason that 
>we have to define the number of elements in an array. The compiler should just 
>extend it  when it needs to. Would make life a lot simpler.
> Ron
>

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