Re: IFS in RPG

[Raul A Jager <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I fully agree. A set of BIF that are simply a wrapper to the posix functions
should not be very hard to implement, and it will be a great helt to write
clear RPG code that uses the IFS in a consistent way.   And better yet, the
manual will have the documentations along with the rest of the RPG BIFs.

Richard B Baird wrote:

> 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