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Status Delivered
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 15, 2019

New builtins PRECVAL and SCALEVAL

The compiler should offer new builtin PRECVAL and SCALEVAL to get the precision and the scale of a variable.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Sep 5, 2019

    this is part of the 5.3 release

  • Guest
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    May 21, 2019

    sounds interesting, but the "value2 = dec(value1,13,2);" from the sample will fail if value1 is too large- right?
    so the whole "dec(..)" ist just masking/hiding the problem.
    the risk is not visible at compiletime but only at runtime (which is even worse imho).
    a "..rem(value, ...) " might be a better solution (but im curious hearing alternatives / corrections).

  • Guest
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    Apr 17, 2019

    There are scenarios where this would be useful