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  3. March 2011

Re: Question about legacy coding style

Craig -

I'd say you are correct. Perhaps the coder didn't know about *LIKE DEFN, or
more likely it is S/34 code that was migrated...

I also used a similar technique to fool the (OPM) RPG compiler in order to
define a file as Update/Full procedural even though I was only writing
records to the file:

(spacing not correct...)

C LRNLR READ I4211 99
C LRNLR UPDATI4211

- sjl


Craig wrote:
This is in some old code we are looking at:

C U1
CANNU1 MOVE X2DAT X2DAT 6 0

C U1
CANNU1 MOVE X2UDAT X2UDAT 6 0

C U1
CANNU1 MOVE X2TDT2 X2TDT2 6 0

C U1
CANNU1 MOVE X2DDAT X2DDAT 6 0


It looks like an obscure way to define a field.

What was the reasoning behind defining it like this?





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