Re: 2nd & 3rd parm on %dec()

[Mark Murphy <jmarkmurphy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes because not every expression that uses %dec() or the right hand side
looks like:

fielda = %dec(fieldb)

What about those instances where %dec() is part of a more complex
expression? I am sure you can conceive of one complex enough that the
precision and scale of the result will not match that of %dec(). Also what
about:

evalh fielda = %dec(fieldb)

In this case the scale of fieldb needs to be larger than that of fielda or
the evalh will be meaningless.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> When using the %dec() function, is it unreasonable to think the compiler
> could check the result field, and default the 2nd and 3rd parameters?
>
> I'm thinking about submitting an RFE, but I want to check to make sure I'm
> not overlooking the obvious.
>
> Thanks
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