Re: CL pgm and pointer variables

[Ken Sims <mr2087@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Doug and the gang -

> >I don't disagree with you that pointers are useful and sometimes necessary.
> >I think in a lot of the transaction processing and inquiry stuff that many
> >of us write, they aren't nearly as useful as they are at a lower level.
>
> I use a lot of triggers in my transaction processing, and find pointers
> invaluable.  So it is not only "system level" processing which benefit by
> judicious use of them.
I haven't found a reasonable way other than using a pointer to be able to
access two difference occurrences of a MODS simultaneously; where I am
actually accessing the real data, not a copy.

Ken
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