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%addr(x:*data) seems a (much much) more natural way of coding.
To retrieve the address of a varying field, right? Certainly we still
need another way to determine the declared length of a field. %len()
sort of did that for most things, but not for VARYING fields.
So I propose this:
%len(myVarField:*DEFN)
We hadn't realized until this thread that there was such a need to know the maximum number of characters a field can hold; %len(string:*MAX) is how I would do it, for any string type, not just varying, to avoid having to divide by the character size for ucs2 and dbcs. We'll see ...
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