Re: Bale, Dan

[dhandy@xxxxxxxxxxx (Douglas Handy)]

Rob,

>... and let me guess.  You want full descriptor, and still be writing V3R2 
>code?

It would have been ideal to have it in V3R2.  It would have let me add
in stuff I can't now, such as an equivalent for %editc/%editw.  As it
is, service programs are still a *big* help.  I am just glad that the
CISC machines didn't stop at V3R1 though, when you couldn't even
create a subprocedure in RPG IV.

Of course I know that nothing else will be added to V3R2, but that
doesn't mean I still don't think full descriptor support would be nice
to add in a future release.  I'll get the customer to RISC someday,
hopefully before the year is out, and then can take advantage of all
the new stuff I have to avoid now.

Actually, what I'd like to see is a "variant" data type with
descriptors for prototyped calls so we can make routines which are
even more flexible.

Doug
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