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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Douglas Handy
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 6:19 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: programming language genealogy


>>I'll give you the /free argument <g>
>
>>I dont.  ...  /free was a bit step
>>forward because it added a lot of procedure call features to the mix while
>>retaining the OS related stuff.

>Huh?  /free did nothing of the sort.  It added no procedure call features I
can
>think of except making the Callp opcode optional.

>Perhaps you are thinking of when subprocedure support was added to RPG IV,
but
>that wasn't even at the same time as when RPG IV was introduced on V3 CICS
>machines.  Subprocedure support was concurrently added in V3R2 (the last
CISC
>release) and V3R6 (the first RISC release).

No, I meant what I said.  with /free you have a lot more room to operate and
can use the procedure features of rpg better than before.  Longer, more
descriptive procedure names, qualified data structure field names, nested
procedures.  V5R1 RPG was a big improvement.

-Steve



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