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Douglas Handy wrote: > > But there could be reasonable alternatives, like the syntax for renaming > fields in externally described files. IE, place the name of the desired > look-ahead field to the left, and the name of the field for the contents > from the next record in the normal field name columns. > > Granted, look-ahead fields aren't useful in very many scenarios so it isn't > a great loss. Just one of those quirks you can run into while trying to > convert RPG II code. > You're right, they could have come up with syntax for it to avoid hardcoding the types. I don't know why they didn't ...
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