Re: Quick question: File exception on update

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

There's nothing non-native or non-idiomatic about the monitor opcode...it's
just new. Well, not really new either...it's just not V4R5 old.

On 10/26/06, James H H Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Michael_Schutte@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Monitor;
> > update file;
> > On-Error 1024;
> >  // do nothing ignore error
> > EndMon;
>
> Why does IBM insist on calling something RPG when it is
> clearly not? If they had any sense, they'd have called
> "RPG-FREE" something else just to avoid RPG's reputation
> as an obscure and old-fashioned language.
>
> Thanks, and I don't mean to be snappish, but I was looking
> for NATIVE, IDIOMATIC RPG. Preferably using either an
> error indicator or an (E) extender.
>
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