RE: *ENTRY PLIST (was: RE: Pointer not set for location .....)

[James David Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 31 May 2001 rob@dekko.com wrote:

> support in RPGLE for *omit.  Let's say I was a glutton for punishment and I
> wrote an all encompassing date handling program.  And I call it with a
> command.  The parameters might be
> 1)  from date
> 2)  to date
> 3)  from date format
> 4)  to date format
> 5)  days from date 1 to date 2
> 6)  day of the week for from date
> 7)  day of the week for to date
> And I only pass it parameter 1 and only request back parameter 6.  (Yes,

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha :)

My company did just this.  Yes, we are gluttons for punishment.  Yes, it
was a pain in the #$& to code for.  We always passed every parameter
(whether we wanted to or not) with a parameter telling exactly what of all
the operations we wanted it to do.  Yuck!

Now we have a nice, simple API with one function for one action.  All very
easy to code.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com

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