RE: RPG, 10 years from now

Your assumption is that VALUES and RANGE only allow for literals--not fields.
I wouldn't assume that myself.

-Bob Cozzi
www.iSeriesTV.com
iPod your industry news instead of reading it.
Coming June 2006
Ask your friends to tune into iSeriesTV.com


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 10:45 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: RPG, 10 years from now

Since WSU was a combination of RPG and Screen, don't we, in effect, have 
those opcodes?  Aren't they just segregated out to the screen now (DDS)?

VALUES might be useful for a limited selection like '0' or '1'.  However 
for anything more than that I'd be a little leery of the potential for 
over hard coding.  SQL gets around this with their IN statement
 IN(select code from codeTable)

Now, if a VALUES is to perform different actions then we're back to the 
elseif versus select argument again anyway.

Range or between would be pretty.

Rob Berendt