Re: Compile failed when try to do return notSUCCESSFULwhere SUCCESSFULis declared as const

Lim Hock-Chai wrote:
> 
> Uummm.  If the compiler is not sicked, then why it let me return a char
> when the prototype says it should return a indicator?
> 

Mainly because of upward compatibility.  In V3R2, you could code this:

P proc             b
D proc             pi               like(*inlr)
c           return    '1'
P                  e

or even this:

P proc             b
D proc             pi               like(*inlr)
D charval          s            1a
c           return    charval
P                  e

When the indicator data type was added (v4r2?), defining something like
an indicator made it an indicator, so now "proc" returns an indicator
rather than the character(1) that it returned in v3r2.  To retain
compatibility, we had to allow character values to be assigned and
compared with indicator values.