Re: RPT vs RPG

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

Nelson,

When we went from RPG/400 to RPGLE and had to deal with the /COPY issue we 
tossed
a coin.  Since we have to touch every program, the decision came done to: do we
use the compiler directives or just break apart the /COPY members.

The coin came up: break them apart.

Not that either decision is better/worse than the other, it still boils down to
having to make a manual change to every program that uses the /COPY member.

Since ILE can't sort them out by itself, and ILE is the future, IMHO, /COPY with
only what you want, placed where you want it, is a guess as to tomorrow's lost
"features".  Sort of like getting it all to work with sqlRPGLE.



"Nelson C. Smith" wrote:

> Using the Define/Undefine compiler directives will let you keep all your
> different line types in the same source member and copy in only what you
> want, where you want it.  In fact, I have one source member, called
> IncludeSrc, that contains everything from single lines to code snippets, to
> entire programs.  In the target program, I just define the portions I want,
> at the location where it should go, and everything works fine (until you try
> it with that dratted SQLRPGLE precompiler, that is).
>

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