RE: Bitwise ops in RPG

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sorry we're not going to see bitwise operators real soon.  Now that RPG
has full support for integer types, there's a lot of potential uses for
bitwise operators.  Make it easy and folks will use them.    

The obvious solution to the bif vs. infix problem is to implement them as
infix operators and provide sample source code for procedures that use the
operators.  As others have pointed out, doing something like a && b && c &&
d is not real straightforward with a bif or procedure.  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 7:22 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Bitwise ops in RPG
> 
> 
> 
> Jim wrote:
> >What are the chances of getting bitwise operators as
> >*both* infix and bifs?
> 
> Slim to none.  In the last enhancement poll, bitwise operators
> ranked pretty low already.  Consider yourself lucky if bitwise
> ops get enough support in the next poll to include in the next
> release. Having both forms is, I believe, asking for too much.
> 
> (Don't worry - here, we count our ballots by hand!)
> 
> Cheers!  Hans
> 
> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
> 
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