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

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

Muchas Grassy...  :)   First chance I get I'll evil eye it, but right now
I'm heads down in a project and I'm also in the middle of putting the
finishing touches on the DC user's groups tech conf for November...and I
know some of you folks are gonna be there... (www.wash-midrange.org)...:)

new stuff OMITS what's new in any language?  Amazing!  What the heck does
IBM think we use to program with?  :)

Nah, just a pointer to the PDF is sufficient...will probably keep David
happier as well...:)   Not to mention the few toadies out there that think
getting more than 5 emails a day is overload...:)

thanks!

Don in DC

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On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 rob@dekko.com wrote:

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> Don,
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> The "What's new" is clearly posted on their website:
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/index.htm
> Although the programming part of what's new failed to cover any languages.
>
> But in the RPG manual itself:
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/books/sm22/c0925084.pdf
> I was going to paste the numerous changes itself but pasting from PDF into
> email is ghastly.  And this email list's forwarder and the conspiracy
> theorists on this list would butcher a pretty pasting
>
> Rob Berendt
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> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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> Don <dr2@cssas400.com>
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> Jon,
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> I actually missed the original list posting...and since multi-D arrays has
> historically had red-headed bastard stepchild treatment that would make
> Cinderella's evil sisters look like benevolent angels, I figured I would
> bring it up on its own...  :)
>
> I heard nested arrays was going into 5.2...but then, since the great minds
> at IBM that are giving everyone 5.2 announcement info just can't seem to
> get past the 890 annoucement, VERY FEW IF ANY have the damnedest clue
> what's in 5.2 and won't really for a while....kinda sucks on IBM's part,
> but oh well...:) ...and I've been too heads down in a 400 > AIX
> conversion to look at the manuals on the IBM website...do have them
> downloaded...at least the ones that are there....:)
>
> Don in DC
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> On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Jon Paris wrote:
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> >  >> Can I put in my request, again, for multi dimensional arrays please?
> >
> > I'm baffled as to why you guys are asking for this when it is already on
> the
> > voting list ????? Did you miss it?
> >
> > Also to some extent you already have the feature in V5R2.  Certainly as
> much
> > as I personally think is worth spending money on.  The major shortfalls
> are
> > that it is slightly more work to code than a simple multi-dim is, and
> that
> > all of the RPGisms like MOVEA don't work with the support.  But since I
> > never use them anyway .....
> >
> > Two level is simple to code and use:
> >
> >      D Level1          DS                  Dim(20)
> >      D   Level2                       9p 0 Dim(12)
> >
> >      C                   Eval      Level1(X).Level2(Y) = 0
> >
> > Only gets messy when you want 3+ levels.
> >
> >
> > Jon Paris
> > Partner400
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