On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:23:10 -0500, Joseph H Winterton wrote: >Well being there at the creation for T30 and T32 records, we did think >about the creation of java coming later... sorry. > Thanks for the clarification.
Did you perhaps mean "... did _not_ think about ..."? I don't know the time lines; perhaps Java couldn't have been a consideration. But there's a more fundamental concern: For the easier understanding by the reader of the code, the defined type of a field should agree notionally with its intended use, independent of other languages available in the environment. If a 32-bit field is intended to be used for signed binary arithmetic, it is proper to declare it only as FL4, not CL4, nor 4AL1, nor any other form which produces identical object code but less comprehensible listings. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
