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Status Not under consideration
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on May 12, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

Add support of named constant arrays

Please add support of arrays of named constant, e.g.:

dcl titleOrderNumber(*) char value(
'Auftragsnummer' ,
'No de l''ordre' ,
'Numero ordine' ,
'Order number' );

In cases like in the example above, the length of the longest value has to be taken.

Such arrays may be used with or without restricted expressions as index. When at least one use is without an restricted expression, the compiler has to quietly support it by creating a static nonasgn table.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 7, 2022

    after further discussion with the customer, they have agreed that we should decline this RFE

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 18, 2021

    Agreed: named value arrays are more obviously constants than static nonasgn arrays

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