RE: SQL finally "free'd"??? -- RPG400-L

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Subject: RE: SQL finally "free'd"???
From: "Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:11:33 -0400
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 >> Variable types like dimensioned qualified data structures are not
supported in SQL syntax.

This first bit is mostly true but SQL itself certainly understands qualified
names in its base syntax.

 >> It has nothing to do with the precompiler code.

This I have to take issue with.  It is very much a precompiler issue.  All
the time that the precompiler is generating fixed form code it is
artificially constraining our choice of host variables.  RPG supports
multi-level qualification in /free.  If the precompiler can accept /free
syntax there is _zero_ reason why it can't generate it.

Jon Paris
Partner400

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