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Just out of curiosity, what would the programmer's EXPLICIT INTENT be if
the DDS for the display file was defined as "10Y 0"?

How about "10N 0"?  Should RPG transform that one to packed?  Or maybe
you'd like it to be transformed to indicators?

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. wrote:
>
> Since when (yeah, I know, it's historical) is it acceptable that a compiler
> change the EXPLICIT INTENT of the programmer writing the code. Since when is
> it a good idea to declare the same damn variable twice, in two different
> sources, just to have the variable retain it's original declaration? Why do
> we spend good money creating free format stuff to help increase obscurity
> and leave little things like this that continue to bite programmers in the
> ass?
>



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