RE: Varying - Inz mandatory?

<Hans>
If a program successfully compiles today, it *must* continue to 
compile successfully tomorrow. Any new diags would have to be 
severity 10 or less. And since such diags are easy to ignore, we 
don't often add such diags.
</Hans>

I can see the reasoning behind this because you would have some pretty mad
customers if they had to "fix" hundreds of programs, but I also think that
the problems that could result from not throwing an error could be even more
troublesome than somebody having to go in and code a simple INZ for data
structures.  Fixing errors based on the compiler listing is cake, fixing
errors because a data structure wasn't initialized can be evasive.

Just my opinion,
Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Boldt [mailto:boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 9:00 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Varying - Inz mandatory?


Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) wrote:
> With the Java compiler it is the equivalent to a 20 or 30 severity level
(or
> at least it wont compile through).  I think that would be warranted even
if
> you are doing a assignment on that field before an IF statement because
the
> next guy might not be thinking that through.  

If a program successfully compiles today, it *must* continue to 
compile successfully tomorrow. Any new diags would have to be 
severity 10 or less. And since such diags are easy to ignore, we 
don't often add such diags.

>... 
> One more thing.  The documentation placement of this is pretty bad.  It is
> only located in the section of the RPG Reference where the INZ keyword is
> described and not in the data structure area.  Even if it was duplicate
> information I think it would be warranted to put it in both places.

We'll keep that in mind for the next release.

Cheers! Hans


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