Re: Where to post ideas for RPG

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/19/2016 6:02 PM, CRPence wrote:
> ...
>   Yet I find that coding the following is just as conspicuous in that
> regard; and for me, not at all problematic to change from using purely
> RPGLE to using SQLRPLE to achieve that simplification\conciseness:
>
>     exec sql
>       set :fld = max(:value1,:value2)
>     ;
> ...

One possible downside to using SQL is that it doesn't support 
expressions or named constants or complex qualified names. So temporary 
variables would occasionally have to be set up prior to using the max() 
or min() function.