RE: Strange behavior w/%editc()

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This makes sense to me.  I've pretty much avoided the use of MOVE for type
conversion, partly because it made me uneasy, and partly because I didn't
want to learn the subtleties.  <g>  I'd rather see something that lets you
know that there's type conversion going on without your having to know the
data types of the variables.

I guess I've been pretty extreme, I've never used the MOVE and MOVEL method
to concatenate strings either.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Cozzi (RPGIV) [mailto:cozzi@rpgiv.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 8:01 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Strange behavior w/%editc()
>
>
> Buck,
>
> > I shouldn't, but I will...
> > Rather than bemoan the loss of MOVE in /free, why not write some
> procedure
> > wrappers that make more sense.  I mean (in the spirit of Bob's 'make
> it
> > clear') that MOVE can convert decimal to character, it can overlay
> some
> > parts of a variable, etc.  Rather than an overloaded MOVE,
> wouldn't my
> code
> > make more sense if it looked more like
> > text = decToChar(YTDSales: toCharLength);
> >
> > instead of
> > MOVE YTDSLS TEXT
> >
>
> To an aged-old RPG programming? Maybe, maybe not.
> To a new RPG programmer (under say 7 years experience) probably.
> To a non-RPG programming that is a new RPG programmer with less than a
> years experience in RPG, but some experience/training in non-RPG
> languages... probably.
>
> There certainly needs to be:
>
> CharToDec()
> DecToChar()
> CharToHex()
> HexToChar()
>
> I realize we already have %CHAR() that converts decimal to character.
> But we also have %DEC() which does not convert character to decimal.
> So I think we need some new built-in functions that are named
> consistently, OR we need %DEC to also convert character values to
> decimal.
>
> Bob Cozzi
>
>
>