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Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 26, 2018

RELATED IDEAS

Remove restriction on typed structures and data-directed I/O statement

Extract from the Language Reference manual chapter 12: 'Typed structures cannot be used in data-directed input/output statements.'

While data-directed I/O is possible on structures, the compiler is currently not accepting it on typed structures.

As typed structures are allowing us to produce clearer and better structured code, we would like to remove this restriction which is preventing us to use typed structures in some cases.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Jun 10, 2022
    delivered in the 6.1 release this May
  • Guest
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    |     Jul 2, 2018

    Thanks - restricting this to PUT DATA makes it much easier

  • Guest
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    |     Jun 29, 2018

    We only need this for PUT DATA statement, not for GET DATA.

  • Guest
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    |     Jun 27, 2018

    Do you need this for GET DATA as well as PUT DATA? it may be much simpler do this for just PUT DATA?

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