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Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 4, 2013

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EPLI V4.3 - String assignment "by init"

With this new option "by init" during string assignment it should be possible to assign the declared INIT-values to a structure.

If no init-values were set, assignment should be blank/0, as it is done with str=''; (no undefined values)

Maybe with another option, for example "by initonly", only fields with INIT-values should be assigned, undefined fields are possible.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - PL/I Compilers

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - PL/I Compilers

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 12, 2015

    this is part of Enterprise PL/I 4.5 via the new REINIT statement

  • Guest
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    |     Dec 4, 2013

    this will probably done via a new statement such as REINIT

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 20, 2013

    We have some concerns with adding this to the language in part because we think there is already a way to do this. Namely,

    if you declare a structure as static with whatever initial values desired, then you can do declare an automatic structure like it and get those same values - and later if you want to re-initialize the structure you can simply assign the static structure to the automatic (or even do a faster plimove)

    In general, it's better for the PL/I language not to add features that can readily be accomplished with existing language

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