RE: MOVE (was: /FREE RPG compiler errors)

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>MOVE does what it says it does.  It copies the value of 
>factor 2 into the result variable.  When the data types 
>dont match, the copied value is converted in a predictable 
>way, just like the programmer wants it to. In my view, the 
>only problem with MOVE is that it does not pad fill 
>the result variable.

You just made my point that MOVE is easy to misunderstand.  In RPG III, you
can pad fill with P in column 43.  In RPG IV, MOVE(p) will pad.  I have
personally seen programmers overlook that lowly column to the right and
mis-read what the code is doing.  At least moving the extender into the
opcode itself saves some of these errors.
  --buck