Re: INFDS()

Being a one-time COBOL hack I tended to use a "Filler" approach to this kind of stuff. So my old D-specs would likely have been:

D INFDS DS
D 369A
D row 3U 0
D col 3U 0

On Nov 2, 2023, at 4:02 PM, VERNON HAMBERG Owner via RPG400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jon, have to love how "intuitive - NOT" it is to code like this -


D INFDS DS
D row 370 370U 0
D col 371 371U 0

instead of


dcl-ds infds;
row uint(3) pos(370);
col uint(3) pos(371);
end-ds;



Best good cheer!
Vern


On Thu, 2 Nov, 2023 at 2:25 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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You're right Buzz - sorry.

It has been many years since I coded a D spec other than in an example like this - I've been doing nothing but free-form for a long time. never occurred to me that POS was a free-form only option.


Jon P.

On Nov 2, 2023, at 10:53 AM, Buzz Fenner via RPG400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

Jon,

I may be missing something here, but the fixed-format D spec does not indicate that the POS keyword is valid.

At least RDi doesn't seem to like it...

On Wed, 1 Nov, 2023 at 10:41 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:


To: rpg programming on ibm i

Or one could avoid from/to notation and use POS instead which I personally find preferable simply >because no "to" calculation is required. In this case of course there should be no danger of screwing up >the "to" position but I like consistency.

D INFDS DS
D row 3I 0 Pos(370)
D col 3I 0 Pos(372)

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