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Re: Conversion to free-form

Quick test using linoma..

dfld1 5a
dfld2 5a
dconfld 10a

c movel fld1 confld
c move fld2 confld
c eval *inlr = *on

Converted

dfld1 5a
dfld2 5a
dconfld 10a

%subst(confld:1:5) = fld1;
%subst(confld:6:5) = fld2;
*inlr = *on;

Charles


On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

We have a lot of code that uses a combination of MOVE and MOVEL to do
rudimentary concatenation. I purchased Linoma at a previous employer and
loved it but I don't recall if/how it handled those cases. Maybe I just
never got bitten by it.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power




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From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Duane Scott <
dscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 7:50 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Conversion to free-form

I've heard that argument before, and I'm not sure I can come up with
examples that couldn't be configured. I accept that there are non-simple
MOVEs, but not sure that they couldn't be transformed into an eval
statement, even MOVES from numeric to string fields or versa-vice.

Maybe I should check the boards before raising this issue. Sorry. Any
question as to which list it should be in?

Duane

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 9:32 AM
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Hi Duane

As to why the ADD, Z-ADD, MOVE are not converted? For one thing, those do
not have a direct equivalent opcode in free-form - no MOVE, for example. It
does seem that Z-ADD could easily be changed to an assignment - MOVE
operations are so varied in their use and result that changing to
assignments is difficult in the extreme.

HTH
Vern

On 4/13/2016 6:47 AM, Duane Scott wrote:
Agreed. Although, I wish more shops would agree to allow more recent
coding techniques like removal of the EVAL opcode. Even that would be an
improvement.

Speaking of which, does anybody understand why the IBM free form
converter cannot convert ADD, Z-ADD, or MOVE? I probably missed the
original explanation, or have since then forgot it. (OOPS! Didn't mean to
change the thread.)

Duane

-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark
Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc.
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 7:17 AM
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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Block printing lines in LPEX - Last Change Date
included

Then use subroutines instead of procedures. There have long been ways to
logically segment programs. We haven't "had" to program in a giant
monolithic block style since RPG II.

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Duane Scott <dscott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Duane Scott <dscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 04/12/2016 02:15PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Block printing lines in LPEX - Last Change Date
included


Not easy to do when procedures are not common practice in the shop you
work in.

I agree though, that if it's an option, take advantage of it as much as
possible.

Duane


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-----John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----

...

Which seems nice. But that area in the margin looks pretty small; what
happens when you are in that 100-line, 12-deep control block?

...
Don't do that, break it into sub procedures with appropriate names.
Deeply nested code is so much easier to mess up because you have to keep
the whole thing in your head all at once.
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