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PL/I Compilers

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VALIDDATE shall support more date/time/timestamp patterns

validdate(to_be_tested, <pattern>) shall support a broader range of date/time patterns. in an ideal world any combination of yyyy, mm, dd, hh, mi, ss, 9999 with any kind of separators (,-;:_.+/\?`^?) are supported. as a minimum the commonly ...
almost 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Builtin to determine level of recursive calls

When using recursive procedures, it would occasionally be useful to know if the procedure currently active is called directly, or recursively, and in the latter case, provided such information is available in control blocks, at what level of recur...
almost 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Additional compound operators for reverse operations

Enterprise PL/I at some stage introduced the originating from C compound operators, i.e. +=-=*=/= and quite justifiably added **=||= All of them, lets generically use the term ?=, in essence "expand" x ?= y ; into x = x ? y; It might in some circu...
almost 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Inline/internal %INCLUDE

When the same structure is used multiple times in a program, it's easy to declare it once in full and reuse it in other structures declared with LIKE. When used this way, any change to the "base" structure" will automagically be applied to all its...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Add a Built-in Function to Invoke the SVC99 Service to the PL/I Compiler

Access to the SVC99 service from PL/I is lacking and must currently be done via a call to an intermediate assembler program. Can a built-in function to access the SVC99 service be added to the compiler?
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enhanced(?) "NOELSEIF" compiler RULES() option

One of the sub-options of the compiler RULES() options keyword is (NO)ELSEIF, to flag long deeply nested IF-THEN-ELSE-IF-THEN-ELSE-IF-THEN... statements, for potential replacement by SELECT-WHEN-WHEN-OTHER statements.
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

New builtins SELECTVALUE and SELECTWHEN

based on builtin IFTHENELSE(expr, truepart, falsepart) we want to have two new builtins for select-functionality:SELECTVALUE(expr, value1, result1, value2, result2, ... , otherresult)SELECTWHEN(whenexpr1, result1, whenexpr2, result2, ... , otherre...
over 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Partial qualified usage of Typed Struct members

Typed struct members seems to need full qualification all the time while "basic" struct members can be used partially qualified (if unique).Wouldn't it be great if typed struct members could be partially qualified too (if unique)?
almost 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

GENERIC should support defined structs.

Given the fact that defined structs can/should be used to improve structure and subsequently readability and hopefully quality of code, it would be great if i could use them in GENERIC entries.
almost 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

REWIND Command

When repeatedly reading a dataset, the ability to reposition to the first record in the dataset is desirable over repeatedly closing and opening the dataset. REWIND is a FORTRAN V2.6 command. I don't care what the command is called when implemente...
almost 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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