Re: Why you shouldn't be afraid to use VARCHAR in RPGLE -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Why you shouldn't be afraid to use VARCHAR in RPGLE
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:04:41 -0500
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On 2025-12-11 3:50 p.m., Daniel Gross wrote:

As RPG and C differ in a lot of spaces - I would suggest, to not make it so "non obvious" as the ternary operator in C - just make it a %BIF - e.g.:

var = %IF( a = b : trueVal : falseVal );
...

That's what IBM suggested they would probably do in one of the answers to this Idea: "RPG - Conditional (Ternary) Operator (?:) in EVAL operation"
https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-1417

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