Re: cl prompting -- WDSCI-L

There are a lot of problems with the CL prompter. Some were caused by 5.1.2.4. Others, like this one, just don't work. Better than SEU? NOT!

Yet, the developers are aware of some of these things. The prompter originated as a command-line prompter, not a programming prompter with variable names and expressions - I dare you to put something in with *CAT - and something as simple as

dcl &varname *dec (9 0)

does not get through the prompter correctly. These are things that are second-nature in SEU, and the fact they don't work here makes this a tough sell.

BTW, if there are no parameters on a command (such as ENDDO), you cannot prompt it. Sheesh! And there are several cases where prompting does not capitalize things that are not in quotes - not even *CAT operators, e.g. Again, please give us something as good as SEU - this ain't it yet! Either do it everywhere (as SEU does) or not at all.

I rant - all you developers have heard me before - I bet you won't get the time you need to really make this work. More's the pity. But maybe you can point out to the money folks that IBM has all this hype and promise, and that this, at least, does not live up to the promise - IMO, anyway. ;-)

Vern

At 12:25 PM 5/9/2005, you wrote:

Reading along with the new wdsc redbook, I'm trying out the cl formatter.
I prompted a cmd and realized that the variable name can't be longer than
the length of the PARM on the command!  And, that the variable name can be
as long as the PARM - i.e. over 10.
Guess I'll skip to the next chapter.
Version: 5.1.2.4
Build id: 20050104_2139
Phil
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