Re: Bitwise ops in RPG (was: Re: Determining *DS4 support)

Barbara,

>Doug, Scott's question about more than 2 operands provides one reason
>why bitwise builtins would be a useful enhancement.

Yeah, I posted my response before Scott's showed up at my end. :(

Still, this falls under the category of stuff we can handle relatively easily
with a service program.  Just create your own BITxxx procedures with numerous
arguments coded as CONST and *NOPASS.  In the routine just use %parms to
determine how many times to use the MI builtins to aggregate your return value.

I'm *not* against the BIFs -- it would standardize how everybody does it and
arguably make it more "mainstream" if it were documented in the RPG manual
instead of relying on MI builtins.  But as a general rule, I don't mind using
service programs.  Follow on programmers don't have to be able to code the
service program -- they just have to understand how and why to call or use the
"black box" routines.  Documentation can provide this.

Doug
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