Re: Future of RPG was: Open Access for RPG

[hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Okey Aaron,

yes

eg. calling a subprocedure (why is it named "subprocedure" when every body
else calls it a function or a method in a class = serviceprogram ?

abcfunction({
  parm3:'abc'
  patm2:%trim(myname)
  parm1:'chain'
  });






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I would consider those small semantics that don't matter and can be
easily learned.  Do you have an example that is more detrimental?

Maybe user defined data types?  I wouldn't mind having user defined
data types in RPG.

Aaron Bartell
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:38 PM,  <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Okey Aaron
>
> I try once again
>
> why do anybody try to introduce
>
> if aaa <> '123';
>
> in one language
>
> while anybody else uses
>
> if (abc != '123') {
>
> in other languages
>
> the result is the same but why on earth try to introduce two standards
> when you can have on - that is the basics of ISO - standardization!
>
> Regards
> Henrik