Re: Conversion to free-form

That's what I would have done had I the time to re-invent the wheel. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.

But at Linoma's prices, it would just be to prove to myself that I could do it.

Duane

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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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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

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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

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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.
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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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...

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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