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  3. January 2010

RE: RPGV?

Dennis,

BIF's are not subject to the lack of overloading support in RPG. Plus, this would just expand what is allowed as the result of the operation. Since this functionality is already part of the fixed format opcode, the hard part has already been done!

I'm curious as to why the free format version is restricted to a numeric variable, instead of allowing an array as the result.

-mark


At 1/11/10 12:31 PM, you wrote:
> have a full equivalent is the SCAN opcode, with a
> numeric array as the result field. I don't
> understand why that one got short-changed during
> the implementation of the %Scan() BIF.

Such implementation would require overloading, which is presently not
available within RPG.

Regards,

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady


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