Constant definitions (was: Visual RPG vs. Other Visual ....

["Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  >> Looks like it's been supported but not documented since the beginning
of RPG IV.

Interesting - particularly since it is explicitly stated in the docs to be
unsupported - and I can remember that during development we were asked to
query users as to whether it would cause them a problem.  I thought the
converter even flagged it.

I tried your code with the V5R2 verifier (don't have access to a V5R2
system) and it compiles.  The following code (which is what I was trying)
fails with 'aconst' undefined.

     D DataStr2        DS                  Dim(5) Qualified
     D  aconst         C                   '1'
     D   Array2                       1    Dim(5)


     C                   Eval      DataStr2(3).Array2(2) = aconst;

Maybe you can check this with the compiler.

Jon Paris
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