You could also provide data as XML or JSON objects - which is just a string input for a REXX function.
No matter of theology - just what kind of data you have and what makes sense. Best regards Mike -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Im Auftrag von Charles Mills Gesendet: 10 April, 2018 19:12 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: Theology (was: Many arguments to a Rexx function call) I don't think there is a theological boundary: 7 arguments good, 8 arguments bad. Your example strikes me as pretty clear. OTOH Myfunc(true, true, false, true, false, false) is probably a bug waiting to happen, and it has only six arguments. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 12:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Theology (was: Many arguments to a Rexx function call) David Crayford: >If the code doesn't have to be supported by a human then you might be right. >If it does then nope! Code that is generated by a program is usually >the >output of a compiler that generates object code that we generally don't >care about until we need to debug it. If a program generates REXX code >then >it should generate good REXX code that doesn't have telescoping >function arguments. As a theological discussion, I find this interesting. Our case is like this (and isn't Rexx, though it could be): rc = somefunction(tuplecount, elementcount, thing1, data1, length1, thing2, data2, length2, thing3, data3, length3, thingn, datan, lengthn) The tuplecount is the number of these triplets, and the elementcount is the number of things in each datan. You can have up to 100 of these tuples. Does that offend your sensibilities? I'm honestly curious-I generally agree 100% with your statement, but this feels like a maybe-exception. If it helps, note that in this instance, each of the tuples are different-that is, it's not like they could be combined, as they're pointing to different data types of different lengths. And there is also an API that handles essentially one item: rc = somefunction(thing, data, length) Obviously the same idea as the first one with tuplecount and elementcount both set to 1. I've been doing this for almost 40 years, but am not a Computer Science graduate by any means, so I'm always interested in the theology behind this stuff, and where it does and doesn't apply. Cheers, .phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
