RE: Something Wrong with the following Code ?

Actually, those where the days when IBM (remember them?) actually maintained
those manuals, and the most reliable group to ever publish such manuals, if
I may be so bold. There was obvious pride in that workmanship back then.

The quality of today's manuals pales by comparison.

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That's interesting, but you know how the manuals were always wrong back
then
:)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'RPG programming on the IBM i / System i'" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 2:55 PM
Subject: RE: Something Wrong with the following Code ?

OK. There's that dang 20-year limit.

Now, if you reference the S/3 documentation, it is much clearer: "You

may

branch to an earlier line or to a later specification line. However,

you

cannot skip from a calculation line that is not conditioned by a

control

level indicator (columns 7-8) to one that is, or vice versa. Neither

can

you branch from a calculation within a subroutine to a calculation

outside

of that subroutine, or vice versa.

So it's been more than 20 years. This reference is 35. Sorry.

Page 208,
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/system3/SC21-7504-

5_System3_RPGII_RefMan_Ap

r75.pdf

Dennis Lovelady
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"Yeah, but we're making good time."

Dennis, my copy of the RPG/400 Reference from 1990 (oldest I can lay

my

hands on) contains the same verbiage as it does

today...specifically...

A GOTO operation can be used to specify a branch:
...
...
...
.From a subroutine to a detail calculation line or to a total
calculation
line

So, it has been that way for long enough for it to not have ever
changed...

Crispin.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'RPG programming on the IBM i / System i'" <rpg400-

l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 2:04 PM
Subject: RE: Something Wrong with the following Code ?

That is the way I understood it for years! Something must have

changed

recently. (By "recently," I mean within the last twenty or so.)

The

code

compiles (to my similar surprise) on V5R3.

I'd like to see Barbara's take on this.

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