Re: Record name the same as the file name

[cozzi@xxxxxxxxx]

Hans,
This is of course what I intended to say, not as Booth paraphrased.

-Bob 
> 
> Booth Martin wrote:
> > But, can you rename it from something different TO be the same as
> the file
> > name? (That is how I read Bob C.s message)
> 
> No. Names must be unique in an RPG program. File names, record 
> names, variable names, subroutine names, prototype names, tag
names, 
> etc. in the same scope share the same name space, and so must all 
> have unique names. That's been true ever since RPG III (which only 
> had one scope - global).
> 
> Allowing record names to be the same as file names would require a 
> major rewrite to the handling of files and records in the
compiler, 
> with implications throughout the code, as well as the rules of the 
> language.
> 
> I'm not saying it can't be done. It's just that it involves one
heck 
> of a lot of code change in the compiler, and the only advantage to 
> the RPG programmer is that she can avoid one RENAME on the F-Spec.
> 
> Cheers! Hans
> 
> 
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