Re: V5 - RPG announcements?

[James David Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 boldt@ca.ibm.com wrote:

> A related enhancement that you should get to know very well as you
> learn V5R1 is keyword LIKEDS.  A data structure or procedure
> parameter defined with LIKEDS inherits all the subfields of the
> other data structure.  So you can define data structure A as
> qualified with subfield X and data structure B as LIKEDS(A) with no
> subfields, and you can refer to subfields A.X and B.X.  The
> advantages of LIKEDS used with procedure parameters should be
> obvious.

Is this the same as:

typedef struct {
char *string;
int number;
(etc)
} mytype;

mytype myDS;

in C?

James Rich
james@eaerich.com

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