RE: Free Form RPG Opinions Wanted

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm glad people who know more than I do feel the same way I do about MOVE.
MOVE is the sort of thing that inspires clever people to reach for new
heights of subtlety at the expense of others.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Handy [mailto:dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 2:37 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: Free Form RPG Opinions Wanted
> 
> 
> Jon,
> 
> >Too many people still code RPG II (they just use RPG IV syntax).
> 
> And to think, here I thought I had to recode all those SET 
> and KEY statements,
> and the programs which used a CONSOLE device!  :)
> 
> >Personally I
> >have _always_ hated MOVE in RPG - it does too much "stuff" 
> behind your back.
> >Any op-code that requires you to know the exact data type 
> and size of both
> >fields before you know what the hell will happen is in my 
> opinion a bad
> >idea.
> 
> My sediments exactly.  It has NOTHING to do with MOVE in 
> /free being any uglier
> than it is in /fixed, or me not understanding the rules of 
> MOVE.  It is BECAUSE
> of understanding all the subtle rules of MOVE that I consider 
> it a poorly
> over-loaded opcode.
> 
> Doug
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