RE: AW: How to properly use %EOF() bif?

What frustrates me with %EOF(myfilename) is that we (pre-V5R3) had to
read/chain to record formats, open file names, and do %EOF(filename). So a
CHAIN RCDNAM would be followed by %EOF(FILENAME) not obvious unless the
names were, by convention, similar.
RPG IV shouldn't care about record format names for database files. It
should ignore them, and encourage the use of the file name only. If you're
still using multi-format logicals, then fine, that would still work, but for
99% of all code out there, why do you need a format name? It ain't 1983
anymore.

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
If everything is under control, you are going too slow.
- Mario Andretti


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Joel Fritz
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 3:13 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: AW: How to properly use %EOF() bif?


Aside from readability, it's another good reason to use the filename
parm in %eof even if it seems obvious.

My C teacher in junior college would mark us down for "excessive" use of
comments. They were acceptable only in situations where it wasn't
obvious what was going on.  His theory was that good code is self
documenting.  I wasn't sure about that then and I'm less sure of it now.
How obvious things are is in the eye of the beholder.<g>

Laplace, the 18th century mathemetician often prefixed sections of
proofs with "it's easy to see..." For him, maybe.

<><><>-----Original Message-----
<><><>From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<><><>[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
<><><>Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:45 AM
<><><>To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
<><><>Subject: Re: AW: How to properly use %EOF() bif?
<><><>
<><><>Hi Birgitta,
<><><>
<><><>>>> Chain does not set the value of %EOF  (it doesn't
<><><>turn it on or off)
<><><>[SNIP]
<><><>> %EOF with no parameter is not changed by these operations.
<><><>> 1. CHAIN (Random Retrieval from a File) on page 573
<><><>
<><><>Sounds like they're saying the same thing to me?  One
<><><>says chain does not set the value of %EOF <--- note that
<><><>there's no parameter listed there.
<><><>The other says "%EOF with no parameter is not changed by CHAIN".
<><><>
<><><>Where's the discrepancy?
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