Re: V5 - RPG announcements?

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:26:27 -0500
>From: rob@dekko.com
>
><snip>
>v A new directive, /INCLUDE, is equivalent to /COPY except that /INCLUDE
is
>not expanded by the SQL preprocessor.
><endsnip>
>
>Does this mean that the preprocessor will expand /COPY?  Can I now have
>nested /COPY statements in an SQL program?

Sorry Rob, but the problem is that SQL already does expand /COPY.  By
"expand", we mean "open up the file and use the information in it".
Since SQL doesn't like nested /COPY and other things related to using
/IF, we came up with /INCLUDE to prevent SQL from looking inside the
included file.

Barbara Morris


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