Re: Alternatives to MOVEL - just curious

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

> >    Even that revised expression may be wrong to properly mimic a MOVEL
> > between those two numeric variables; again, depending on the values.
> > That expression loses the sign, but MOVEL maintains the sign from the
> > source operand.  According to the doc: When "Factor 2 is longer than the
> > result field:" then "If factor 2 and the result field are numeric, the
> > sign from the rightmost position of factor 2 is moved into the rightmost
> > position of the result field."

did not know that. Too bad OPDESC does not do what its name implies. That
is pass the complete data attributes of the argument  to a procedure.  That
way you would have a fighting chance of writing a generic MOVEL procedure.
At least the version that moves numeric to character.

-Steve