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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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