Re: VARLEN dds field in RPG-IV

[G Armour <garmour400r@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> To check to see if the length was not set by the compiler would be as 
> difficult as checking to see if this was a divide by zero:
> /free
>  z=x/y;
> /end-free
> y could have been set in the program, could have been passed in as a 
> parameter, could have been read in from a file.  Same story with the 
> length.

But y would have been *defined*.  If I just reference a VARLEN field by name, 
is the
2-byte length area implicitly defined?  Probably the answer is yes, but that 
was the
debate I was having with myself.

> Would you be happy with a warning message
> RNF....  The MOVE opcode is about to be deprecated.  Find a better 
> alternative

LOL!  Yes, that would be great!

GA


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