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Status Not under consideration
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 21, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

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 derivatives.

It would be if a similar feature was available for short snippets of code. Obviously, there is the long standing option to create %INCLUDE members with the required few lines of code, and include these multiple times, but when used for short snippets, using %INCLUDE has two (minor) disadvantages:

1) The programmer has to access another dataset to actually see and/or modify the code
2) Using %INCLUDE members that are used in one single program doesn't really make sense from a point of reusability.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 27, 2016

    there are already several ways to accomplish this and adding a new one would add unneeded clutter to the language

  • Guest
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    |     Apr 19, 2016

    Horrible indeed, woecki.

    Prino should read the manual and learn how to use a procedure.

    It's funny this guy complains about suggestions that will actually improve productivity for all users of the compiler, but then suggests this nonsense the compiler can already handle properly via a procedure, functionality which has been in the compiler for the 25+ years I've been using it.

  • Guest
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    |     Apr 19, 2016

    create a proc and rely on the compilers ability to inline (no idea how well this is done currently).
    code multiplication prior to compilation sounds like a really horrible idea to me, sorry.

  • Guest
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    |     Mar 28, 2016

    This is a bad idea, not well thought out, and unnecessary. Use a Proc and let the compiler sort it out.

  • Guest
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    |     Mar 24, 2016

    Under consideration

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