Re: Parameter prototype question

Dennis,

I don't think there's anything wrong with having the compiler send a warning
message if you do certaiin things that *could* give problems at runtime.
After all, that's why we have the GENLVL parameter for the generation
commands. Moving large numeric fields into small numeric fields is an
obvious choice.

As for where, specifically, it should stop, I have no idea - I wouldn't have
any of it in there, but that's because I check my code before I compile it
(like you, I rmemeber the hell that is adding a compile job to a job queue,
waiting for hours for it to complete and have it throw an error because of a
spelling error). Mind you, an interactive syntax checker would have been
dandy, back then...

Rory

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Dennis Lovelady <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

But it surely *is* smart enough to recognize that

Pack5P = Pack10P;

could be problematic?

Just where should this stop, exactly? How much responsibility shall we
place on the compiler so that we can blame IBM while we point at the
listing
and say, "See? It didn't catch that! There's nothing wrong with it!"

And how much responsibility shall we place on our own shoulders?
<soapbox>The whole idea of throwing something at the compiler to see what
comes back, is irresponsible and lazy. Those who knew what it was like to
wait 24 hours (72 on weekends) for the result of one compile, will know
what
I'm talking about, and those people probably do a far better job of
desk-checking than the kiddies of today.</soapbox>

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