RE: R: RPG Indicators

["Bale, Dan" <DBale@xxxxxxxx>]

Eh, Hans, you're storing so many compiler thingys in your head that you
can't remember the debuggable %BIFs????  This topic went on for months and
you were very gung-ho for it.  Remember now?  <g>

Well, it *would* be a good idea to support this, don't you think?

- Dan Bale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [SMTP:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 9:03 AM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: R: RPG Indicators
> 
> Jon wrote:
> >I would never go back to using indicators to deal with a situation
> >that (hopefully) will not often happen. Also how often do you need
> >to know - you are normally going to have logic conditioned on the
> >BIF all you have to do is watch which way it flows.  On those
> >occasions when I _have_ to know, or need to "force" a logic condition,
> >I simply assign the BIF to a field and use that.
> >
> >I believe Hans commented previously that they were looking at ways of
> >making the BIFS "debuggable" in the future.
> 
> I don't want to contradict you, Jon, but I don't remember
> ever saying that.  (Or maybe I'm just getting old.)
> 
> Cheers!  Hans
> 
> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
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