Re: figurative constants *YES & *NO?

I always define these and use them....
dcl-c True '1';
dcl-c False '0';

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power

 
 





From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 1:42 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: figurative constants *YES & *NO?
 
*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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