Re: R: BIF's question.

[Gary Guthrie <GaryGuthrie@xxxxxxxx>]

I discovered that quite some time ago when I was STUMPED with a problem.
In desperation, I changed from *ZERO to 0, and the problem went away. At
the time, I was convinced this was a bug (and as far as I'm concerned it
still and really is!), but it turns out that this has to do with
figurative constants not being accepted. I spoke with IBM about this. I
think their solution is to add documentation to that effect.

Gary Guthrie
REAL Solutions Technical Support
NEWS/400 Technical Editor


David Morris wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> One strange thing is that you can't specify %len(fld) = *ZERO, you must 
>specify
> %len(fld) = 0.  When I first saw this I thought it was such an obvious error 
>that I
> didn't bother reporting it.  I guess it wasn't that obvious because it has 
>been this
> way for quite a while.
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