RE: Date Field Printing

If memory serves, date fields are initialized to *loval.  Nullity (ooh, I
thought I'd never use that word in polite conversation), I think, is an
attribute of the field independent of the value stored in the field.
Believe there was a thread about this within the last couple of months.
Also, in RPG, you have to compile your programs to be null aware.  It's not
the default.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Berendt [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 10:52 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Date Field Printing
> 
> 
> I question 'the absence of a date is stored as 0001-01-01'.  Isn't 
> it stored as *null instead?  Does *null print this way?  Or is this 
> the effort of picking some arbitrary date to indicate the 
> lack thereof?
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