Re: IFS in RPG

Put me in the 'make it part of the language' camp.

as others have stated, when dealing with the APIs, there are more than a
hundred ways to skin a cat, and when having to deal with someone elses
implementation of the complicated and many times obscure API interfaces, it
becomes difficult to descern just HOW a particular implementation of an API
is supposed to behave.

The date manipulation bifs and opcodes are a great example of this.

It would be nice to have a common, predictable and easily understood way of
accessing stream files.  Even (Hans :) if they are only wrappers for the
standard posix functions.  What's the point you ask?  Standardization and
ease of use.  And shedding light on the cloudy IFS world to many, many
middle-of-the-road developers who would otherwise never even consider it.

my two cents,

rick