Re: What bugs you about KLISTs in RPG IV?

[Abraham Sanchez <abraham.sanchez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Call me old-fashioned, but I definitely would.  I'm not an RPGIV programmer, 
but I use KLISTs
constantly on RPG400, and if I were to use RPGIV I'd still use them.  If my 
KLIST is composed
of, say, 5 fields, I'd rather define the key once and then use a single 
variable name rather
than retyping the same 5 variables over and over.  And unless I was doing cut 
and paste, my
coding would be less prone to errors.

Added to that, if my file definition changes (as it sometimes does during 
development stage),
I'd have to make multiple changes to who knows how many chain statements in who 
knows how many
programs, where with a KLIST, I could find it quickly (searching for KLIST, 
obviously), make
just one change, and recompile.

Having started on a S/36 RPG-II environment, to me KLISTs are a blessing I 
won't be discarding
any time soon.  :-)

Abraham Sanchez
Programmer/Analyst, AS/400 Operations
Remy Amerique, Inc.
(212) 399-4200 x.274


> So todays questions are:  Would you take advantage of this if
> available?  Would you still use KLISTs?
> 
> Cheers!  Hans
> 
> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
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