Re: Implicit type conversion from boolean to character

[Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I could be wrong here (no, it's happened before, really), but isn't *ON 
nothing more than a '1'?

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Aaron Bartell wrote:
> I don't know how this one slipped by me (probably because I've never tried
> it), but it appears you can pass a boolean value to a sub procedure that is
> declared to receive characters, and it will implicitly convert it to a
> string of ones (1) or zeros (0).
>
>  
>
>  
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>      h dftactgrp(*no)
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>  
>
>      d subProc         pr
>
>      d  pStr1                     65535a   varying value
>
>       /free
>
>  
>
>        subProc(*on);
>
>        *inlr = *on;
>
>  
>
>       /end-free
>
>      p subProc         b
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>      d subProc         pi
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>      d  pStr1                     65535a   varying value
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>      p                 e    
>
>  
>
> The above code compiles and executes successfully.  Upon execution of
> subProc, pStr1 is filled with ones or zeros.
>
>  
>
> Is this as designed?
>
>  
>
> Aaron Bartell
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