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

I'd call that an implantation detail. The compiler would have to be smart enough to deal with it, and possibly require the parms in those cases.


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From: Mark Murphy [mailto:jmarkmurphy@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 12:51 PM
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Subject: Re: 2nd & 3rd parm on %dec()

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.