Re: R: BIF's question.

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey! That's a favorite IBM excuse of mine. Imagine telling your customers or
users "Oh, it doesn't work? Let me put that in the manual."


----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Guthrie <GaryGuthrie@home.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: R: BIF's question.


> 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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