Re: How do you pass an omitted parameter to a procedure?

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have to ask - how did you ever think that an asterisk is a substitute 
for *OMIT? *OMIT has been documented ever since it first appeared.

Now I may have missed something.

But I vote for NOT changing anything here, rather fix RDi to do the 
right thing.

I don't consider the compiler to need any fixing -working as designed.

JMHO
Vern

On 7/4/2013 5:15 AM, thomas.raddatz@xxxxxx wrote:
> This is a survey that I started as a result of an APAR that I opened at
> IBM. The actual problem I have is that RDI 9.0 issues a warning for the
> following statements and therefore does not automatically refresh the
> "Outline" view.
>
>     sendMessage(*: THIS);     //  - unexpected token(s) ignored
>     sendMessage('Hello': *);  //  - unexpected token(s) ignored
>     sendMessage(*);     // cannot detect whether or not it is
>                         // a procedure call or an indexed array
>     sendMessage();      // legal statement
>
> Now IBM says that the compiler causes the problem, because actually it
> should not accept the '*' as a replacement for '*omit'. Finally they asked
> me whether or not I want to open an APAR to fix the compiler. Since
> changing the compiler would cause a lot of work for us I am not sure what
> to do and I like to know whether or not you were affected when IBM changed
> the compiler.
>
> Please select:
>
> [ ] Not affected, let IBM change the compiler
>
>     or
>
> [ ] STOP, never change the compiler
>
> Feel free to add additional comments.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Thomas.
>
>
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