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Re: Question about legacy coding style

On 3/23/2011 10:52 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:
On 3/23/2011 10:38 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
Another possibility was that the programmer just wanted all of his field
definitions for each grouping of work fields together. I do not
understand why he would choose two lines though. A search for "U1NU1"
would be a logical way for a programmer to have a common practice of
defining work fields.

U1NU1 turns into two lines of code when you convert RPG III to RPG/400
using CVTRPGSRC. RPG/400 only has room for one indicator per line.

Joe

Ugh. Got that confused. RPG/400 uses the original column sizes (5-character opcodes, three indicators per line), while RPG IV is the newer style (10-character opcode, one indicator). So the line above should have read "convert RPG III (or RPG/400) to RPG IV" and "RPG IV only has room". Gotta stop posting this late...

Joe

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