Re: Request for CL, DDS, SQL RPG enhancements

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Jon,

You wrote:
>Mostly because of the lack of control structures, primitive (or at least
>non-intuitive) error handling,  strange ideas about math and string
>operations, and then there is the fact that since I can never remember
>the syntax and have to prompt it, I always gets IBM's ugly default
>formatting all over the place.

Then you should use Rexx!  More control structures than you can shake a
stick at. Return-code based error handling (although I prefer CL's
exception model). All the maths and string functions you could want with
standard behaviour.  No prompting, so format as you wish (but if you can't
remember the syntax how do you code CL commands in RPG IV for system() or
QCMDEXC?  Hmm!)

Note the RPG IV reference to keep this topic remotely on track :)

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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