Re: Free format H, F, D and P specs

Blake

This isn't a dig at you - it's at the thread and this community!

Sheesh!

What's up? Everyone wants something, IBM delivers a solution, and all (I know, not everybody) we get is carping at what it is.

Hey, you haven't even seen it in your editors yet - get it loaded, try it out, so maybe it's not what WE or YOU or I would have done - still, give it time!

This enhancement was voted almost unanimously as the top priority for representatives from several cultures - ISVs, CAAC, LUG, CEAC, at least.

And IBM have come through with a solution.

OK, back to my burrow!

Vern

On 10/8/2013 9:53 AM, BButterworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Why not just go with Java at that point instead of reinvent the wheel? For
better DB integration, IBM could develop a LINQ-like or ORM package around
DB2 for i to the Java tool box.

Blake


date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:08:08 -0400
from: Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Free format H, F, D and P specs

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 2:39 AM, <thomas.raddatz@xxxxxx> wrote:

For example from the day when IBM introduced procedures with V3, I
wonder why we have to use P specs to start/end a procedure and D specs

for

the procedure interface. Using only P specs whould have been a lot

easier

and clearer (at least for me):

Braces and combining the P and D specs would be nice. But it is just
syntactical sugar ( a term Anders Hejlsberg uses ). Consider that a code
editor could easily put those elements in the language. Or a pre compiler.
I can argue that IBM should focus on improving the pre compiler, making it
easier to integrate with the debugger. Once that is done then anyone could
produce their own version of RPG that had braces and a simpler procedure
declaration.

What is really needed in the language is references, reference counting
and
garbage collection. Once you have that then you can have the various types
of collections that you see in .NET ( when variables are addressed by
reference they can be placed in collections without having to copy their
contents. ) Once you have full featured collections like dynamic arrays,
linked lists, etc you can move on to morphing a collection into a database
and vice versa. Where you order by a collection the same way you order by
a
table, or join a table to a collection.

-Steve