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  3. November 2002

Re: CL pgm and pointer variables

Hi Doug and the gang -


>I don't disagree with you that pointers are useful and sometimes necessary.
>I think in a lot of the transaction processing and inquiry stuff that many
>of us write, they aren't nearly as useful as they are at a lower level.

I use a lot of triggers in my transaction processing, and find pointers
invaluable.  So it is not only "system level" processing which benefit by
judicious use of them.

I haven't found a reasonable way other than using a pointer to be able to
access two difference occurrences of a MODS simultaneously; where I am
actually accessing the real data, not a copy.

Ken
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