Re: Please vote for Syntax check in /FREE!

[Raul A Jager <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In almost all the countries we use the coma to separate the integer part 
from the decimal fraction, so for us it is very clear that the example 
is sending to "myProc" a value of twelve dolars and seventeen cents.
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Bob cozzi wrote:

> Hans,
> Hans,
> I can?
> What is the comma used for in RPG IV? 
> Nothing in RPG IV that I can think of, it does not exist, does it?
> Am I having a brain fart? I can code the statement you specified, but it
> won't compile.
>
>   Callp   myProc(12,17);
> Huh? Explain, please?
>
> Bob Cozzi
> Cozzi Consulting
> www.rpgiv.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Hans Boldt
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 11:21 AM
> To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Please vote for Syntax check in /FREE!
>
> Bob cozzi wrote:
>
>  
>
> > The only enhancement RPG IV needs to make it more usable today is to allow
> >    
> a
>  
>
> > COMMA to be used as the parameter separator. No single thing causes me
> >    
> more
>  
>
> > delays in development than this one "feature".  I would give up function
> > overloading, semi colon at the end of statements in free format, and a
> >    
> bunch
>  
>
> > of other things for this one capability. 
> > Oh for the days I could write:
> >
> >   Callp   GetLibInfo('QGPL',nObjCnt, nLibSize)
> > Instead of...
> >
> >   Callp   GetLibInfo('QGPL':nObjCnt:nLibSize)
> >
> > Even today, I still enter a COMMA, compile the code, then have to figure
> >    
> out
>  
>
> > what the error is telling me (because it never says COLON missing from
> > expression) it says things like "expected token not found" or "right
> > parameter missing from expression" and I look at the code (with the COMMAs
> > in it) and it looks perfectly fine to me, then I realize, COLOTIS is the
> > cause the problem
> >
> >    
>
>
> And Bob, you also know full well that that's not going to change any 
> time soon. As you know, you can code "CALLP PROC(12,34);" today. And 
> since release to release compatibility is rather important to us 
> (probably to you too), the meaning of that particular bit of syntax 
> can't change.
>
> Believe me, I think all of us here would have preferred the comma to 
> the colon.
>
> Cheers! Hans
>
>
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