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Status Not under consideration
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 7, 2019

Enhance the sum() builtin function and add two siblings

The SUM builtin function is a very useful feature of PL/I. However, unlike many other builtin functions it does not accept structures as argument.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    May 12, 2020

    Supporting structures in SUM will add a lot of code to the compiler (and work to the compiler team), but we don't think the amount of usage will justify the cost of doing this (especially compared to other work we could do).

  • Guest
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    Jul 26, 2019

    We are investigating supporting SUM with structures. But the 2 variant functions will not be supported