Re: more based() %addr array questions!!! found my problem:

No Hans, myself and others appreciate the pointers.

Rob Berendt
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Barbara wrote:
>Rick, it's a "feature" of the ILE RPG compiler, that you don't have to
>explicitly define a basing pointer.  It's not an accidental feature, but
>it was misguided in my unofficial-not-speaking-for-IBM opinion.

Well, that was probably my fault.  From under my own unoffical-
not-speaking-for-IBM hat (which I normally wear anyways), I regret
adding a couple of specific features to the RPG IV language.  The
more I think about it, the more I think adding pointers to the
language was a bad idea.  Pointers belong in systems programming
languages, not languages intended for application programming.
Pointers are basically the "goto" of data structures.

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com

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