Re: AW: More on RPG style

[Rory Hewitt <rory.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

Yeah, a challenge indeed. Currently, operational descriptors are only passed
for character/graphic parameters. IN theory, therefore, I could
*assume*that if no OD is present for a parameter, then it's a numeric
value
(assuming I also specify OPDESC for the procedure). Plus, even if I do pass
OD's, I won't be able to check for upper-case input etc.

As far as using a Java ArrayList goes, I don't know Java well enough to
implement this myself, but my *guess* would be that it would be much slower,
what with the JVM startup and stuff.

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Tom Armbruster <
tarmbruster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Rory,
>
> That's an interesting thought.  It would be a challenge to account for
> all of the variations.
>
> I'm sure I'll be drawn and quartered for suggesting this, but wouldn't
> it be easier to use something like a Java ArrayList for this instead of
> trying to reinvent the wheel in RPG?  Just a thought.  I'm not an expert
> on Java performance in RPG.  Maybe it's even worse than embedded SQL.