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Re: Compiler directive

On 8/9/06, Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



> I my view the RPG includes should the highest priority and the ones on
> which the others are based. Build the RPG IV includes first, then port
> those to the other languages-not the other way round.

Exactly.


INCLUDES are 1980s technology. If IBM has any skills remaining in
languages and ILE I vote they enable service programs to contain meta
data ( if that is what it is called ). The definitions of  prototypes,
constants, structs should all be bound in service programs with the
compiled procedures. When you compile a module the programmer should
only have to tell the compiler which service programs are being used.
The compiler then reads the meta data of the used srvpgm to retrieve
the prototypes of the procedures the module is calling.

-Steve

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