Re: Need Some RPG Technical Questions

[James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Dow (ML) wrote:
> All those "implicit" things...how about showing them a simple program 
> with no primary file and no *INLR = *ON and no RETURN and see if they 
> understand the error message about the compiler being unable to figure 
> out how the program will end.<g>

Excellent. Or you could show them an interactive program that uses The 
Cycle as its event-loop, with LR tied to KC and/or KL, and ask them 
whether it will run once, or run until the user presses the appropriate 
function key. Or you could show them a program that checks some field in 
its primary file, and changes "FOO" to "BAR," and ask them what it does.

But explaining the "unable to figure out how the program will end" 
compilation message is definitely better than my alternatives, if you 
could only use one.