Re: It's That Time Again! The 2002 RPG Enhancement Poll

Douglas Handy wrote:
>
> I'd vote for this if it can handle my environment, but I'm not sure it will.  
>I
> started a practice back on the S/34, where each physical file has a unique
> 2-character prefix used in all field names for that file.  This helped to 
>avoid
> name collissions since we did not have qualified DS naming.  Thus one file 
>might
> have fields xxCUST and xxNAME while the next has yyCUST and yyNAME, etc.
>
> In order for EVALC to move corresponding fields, the subfield names must 
>match.
> But mine never will, unless you can code something like PREFIX( '': 2 ) and 
>have
> the compiler *drop* two characters from the fieldname without replacing them.

Doug, even if the compiler doesn't add prefix-dropping(*), you could
apply the same prefix to all your structures.  PREFIX(Z:2) would give
you ZCUST and ZNAME for both structures.  Not as nice as CUST and NAME,
I know.

(*) Me, I think prefix-dropping is a good idea, though.