Re: Where to post ideas for RPG

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc.
<mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is craziness. There is no way I am going to jump into the SQL precompiler, or CLI, or any other language, particularly CL, just to get a %min or %max function in RPG. It is far easier to just code:

That is precisely what Chuck said. He was just demonstrating to be... academic.

P.S. Every language except embedded SQL would have the same problem that RPG has. Namely the call is strongly typed, down to the precision and scale of the parameters and return value. So I can't cover every possible option in a single sub-procedure regardless of the language.

Well, not *every* language. You definitely would not have that problem
in Python, which is in fact strongly typed. (It's just also
dynamically typed.) You probably would not have that problem in Ruby
either. I'm not sure about JavaScript, Rexx, or PHP, but they strike
me as having a good chance of not having that problem either. All of
these languages are available on the i. It's true none of them are
full participants in ILE, though, so you would have to adjust your
concept of "sub-procedure". (And of course, some if not all of them
already have min and max built in.)

John Y.