Re: figurative constants *YES & *NO?

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

*YES shouldn't work. It is not True/False. *TRUE or *FALSE should work but
don't.



On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I inadvertently typed *YES where I intended to type *ON when assigning a
> value to an indicator field, and I was surprised when the syntax checker
> allowed it.  Nothing on this was found in the updated v7r1 RPG reference,
> so I tried to compile it.  But it failed on RNF7416: "The types of the
> right and left hand side do not match in the EVAL operation."  So, the
> compiler seems to recognize *YES as a valid token of some type.  I tried
> defining Confirm as char and int, same error.
>
> Dcl-S Confirm  ind;
> ...
> Confirm = *YES;
>
> On v7r1, latest/last TR and latest PTF groups.
>
> - Dan
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