RE: BIGINT Field Size

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Me too. I think I even published that sometime last year or the year
before.

Bob Cozzi
www.rpgiv.com/seminars



-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
On Behalf Of Buck Calabro
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 9:41 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: BIGINT Field Size


>Actually, I still type in 4I0 and
>then have to stop and think... "okay
>is that 10 or 20 digits?"
-snip-
>When using integers do we think in
>terms of absolute digits? I don't.

I'm easily confused, so I used to have the exact same problem.  I solved
that with a standard /COPY member that has a declaration for int,
double, float, etc.  My D specs now look like
d i               s                   like(int)
  --buck
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