Re: What am I missing, or free-form data structures and the group data area. -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: What am I missing, or free-form data structures and the group data area.
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 18:46:55 -0500
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On 3/9/2016 9:30 PM, Chris Pando wrote:

... Curiously enough, the DEFINE opcode
can't be used in a sub-procedure, so it can only be used in a logic-cycle
program We've pretty much abandoned both fixed format and the logic cycle.
But I am still curious as to why RPG recognizes *LDA and *PDA, but not
*GDA. There must be a reason.

The DEFINE opcode isn't restricted to a logic cycle program. It can be coded in the "main source section" of a NOMAIN module or a linear-main module, above the first procedure in the module. The DEFINE opcode is allowed there because it's not an executable statement.

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