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Booth Martin wrote:
errr... would better examples of deprecation in RPG be MOVE, GOTO, and
the use of file members?
Maybe GOTO, given that there are more elegant ways to, for example,
leave a loop prematurely (something that was left out of that paragon of
structure, Pascal, because Wirth somehow couldn't imagine situations in
which a premature exit was normal, but completion indicated an error --
like he'd never done a table-lookup?). But MOVE is useful, as it is
frequently useful to assign a string in such a way that any padding or
truncation happens on the left, and I know of no other construct, in RPG
or any other HLL, that does this. (CPYBRA and CPYBRAP do it in MI).
Likewise, members are a feature of the native file system, not of RPG.
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