Re: ILERPG syntax parsing oddity

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Note that splitting on the period has been allowed as long as the long
names have been AFAIK.

Charles


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Anderson, Kurt <KAnderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I think they're working on that.  I opened an PMR about
> qsysinc/qrpglesrc,jni which has that same issue and kills the parser.
>
> -Kurt
>
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> Subject: [WDSCI-L] ILERPG syntax parsing oddity
>
> Ran across another thing that does not parse properly in RDi but does
> compile.  Frankly it's ugly and I did not think it WOULD compile, but it
> did.
>
> In a program I have included an include.  There's a yellow triangle next
> to it that says
>
>     Multiple markers at this line
>     - "." expected instead of this input
>     - unexpected token(s) ignored
>
> I finally figured out that it meant not ON this line, but in the member
> included by this line.
>
> Went to the include and found this:
>
>      d functionName...
>      d                 pr                  extproc( 'functionName' )
>      d  parm1                              like(someStructure.
>      d                                     Name )
>
> I did not think the name in the like() keyword split on the period would
> compile but it does.  The parser hates it though. I don't much like looking
> at it either...
>
> Stu
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