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Status Not under consideration
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 25, 2016

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Multiple "FROM" references in WRITE statement

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Many reporting programs contains sets of

WRITE FILE(whatever) FROM(head1);
WRITE FILE(whatever) FROM(head2);
WRITE FILE(whatever) FROM(head3);
WRITE FILE(whatever) FROM(head4);

to write out heading lines.

It would be nice if the WRITE statement for these cases could be changed to allow a statement with multiple comma separated FROM variables, so that the above could written as

WRITE FILE(whatever) FROM(head1, head2, head3, head4);

Using a statement like this might allow (some) optimization of the generated code, or it might just serve as a shorthand to write out several lines to the same file.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     May 6, 2016

    It's doubtful that we would be able to optimize this much, and it would be easy to write a macro that would turn one meta-statement into n real statements.

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