RE: Something Wrong with the following Code ?

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, those where the days when IBM (remember them?) actually maintained
those manuals, and the most reliable group to ever publish such manuals, if
I may be so bold.  There was obvious pride in that workmanship back then.

The quality of today's manuals pales by comparison.

Dennis Lovelady
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> That's interesting, but you know how the manuals were always wrong back
> then
> :)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'RPG programming on the IBM i / System i'" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 2:55 PM
> Subject: RE: Something Wrong with the following Code ?
>
>
> > OK.  There's that dang 20-year limit.
> >
> > Now, if you reference the S/3 documentation, it is much clearer: "You
> may
> > branch to an earlier line or to a later specification line.  However,
> you
> > cannot skip from a calculation line that is not conditioned by a
> control
> > level indicator (columns 7-8) to one that is, or vice versa.  Neither
> can
> > you branch from a calculation within a subroutine to a calculation
> outside
> > of that subroutine, or vice versa.
> >
> > So it's been more than 20 years.  This reference is 35.  Sorry.
> >
> > Page 208,
> > http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/system3/SC21-7504-
> 5_System3_RPGII_RefMan_Ap
> > r75.pdf
> >
> > Dennis Lovelady
> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
> > --
> > Phil Rizzuto (to Yogi Berra, driving to a banquet) :
> >  "Yogi, we're lost."
> >  "Yeah, but we're making good time."
> >
> >
> > > Dennis, my copy of the RPG/400 Reference from 1990 (oldest I can lay
> my
> > > hands on) contains the same verbiage as it does
> today...specifically...
> > > A GOTO operation can be used to specify a branch:
> > > ...
> > > ...
> > > ...
> > > .From a subroutine to a detail calculation line or to a total
> > > calculation
> > > line
> > >
> > > So, it has been that way for long enough for it to not have ever
> > > changed...
> > >
> > > Crispin.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: "'RPG programming on the IBM i / System i'" <rpg400-
> l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 2:04 PM
> > > Subject: RE: Something Wrong with the following Code ?
> > >
> > >
> > > > That is the way I understood it for years!  Something must have
> > > changed
> > > > recently.  (By "recently," I mean within the last twenty or so.)
> The
> > > code
> > > > compiles (to my similar surprise) on V5R3.
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to see Barbara's take on this.
> > >
> > >
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