Re: Is RPG 'DEAD"

[Michael_Schutte@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

But to say that there isn't one is just wrong.


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rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/18/2008 11:57:55 AM:

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:31 AM,  <Michael_Schutte@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > <SNIP>no try ... catch .... </SNIP>
> >
> > Then what is???
> >
> >  Monitor;
> > On-Error;
> > EndMon;
>
> it is no where as comprehensive and feature rich as exception handling
> in java or c#.  In RPG if an *escape message is sent to a procedure
> lower on the invocation stack, your on-error ... endmon code will not
> be executed.  In C#, the try ... finally handler will be called.  You
> can rig the equivalent to try finally in RPG and ILE, but it is a lot
> of code.
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