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  3. June 2002

RE: Resetting %EOF

How much is a lot?

I've tried wrapping my reads in a procedures, and I like the way the code
looked. The thing that made me abandon it was that it would be a lot of
trouble to write generic file IO procedures because of the way RPG sees file
names and the complexities introduced by keyed I/O.

I wouldn't say no to an inline keyword.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Cozzi [mailto:cozzi@rpgiv.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:27 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Resetting %EOF
>
>
> Great idea Scott!
> But remember, there is a lot of overhead in a procedure call (relative
> to a straight, in-line opcode) so you will add to the time it takes to
> retrieve the database records; if that's an issue with the code, the
> you'd want to avoid wrapping it into a procedure.
>
> Ah, yet another reason why the INLINE keyword is needed on Procedure
> specs....
>
> Bob Cozzi
>
>

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