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

Thomas,

Are you implying that the compiler DOES accept '*' as a replacement for '*OMIT'?

If so, and it is an undocumented feature (I have never seen anything in the documentation about it), I think it it is reasonable to expect that the compiler be changed. But given the fact that RDI apparently flags it as illegal (don't know about SEU, but I would expect the same behaviour), the priority could be extremely low :-)

Joep Beckeringh

Op 4 jul. 2013, om 12:15 heeft thomas.raddatz@xxxxxx het volgende geschreven:

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.