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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Rational Business Developer
Categories EGL Language
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 20, 2010

RELATED IDEAS

Generic types and parameters of type any

Parameters of type "any" should have methods returning the type, basic type, length and decimals.

Example:
x num(10,2);
foo(x);
..

function foo(p any)
writeStdOut(p.type());
writeStdOut(p.basicType());
writeStdOut(p.length());
writeStdOut(p.decimals());
// Would display:
// num(10,2)
// num
// 10
// 2


It should also be possible to define variables with the type, length and decimals as variables. Example:
myType string = "num";
myLength int = 8;
myDecimals int = 2;

myVar1 myType(myLength, myDecimals); // Same as num(8,2)
myVar2 char(myLength); // Same as char(8)

Alternatively just the length and scale, e.g:
myLength int = 8;
myDecimals int = 2;
myVar1 num(myLength, myDecimals); // Same as num(8,2)

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     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 - Business Developer

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Business Developer

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 22, 2010

    Thank you for this suggestion. However, it is unlikely that this feature would be implemented within the next two years. Note that the EGL loose types give some of this functionality. You can dynamically create other variables based on the loose type.

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Generic types and parameters of type any

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Parameters of type "any" should have methods returning the type, basic type, length and decimals. Example: x num(10,2); foo(x); .. function foo(p any) writeStdOut(p.type()); writeStdOut(p.basicType()); writeStdOut(p.length()); writeStdOut(p.decima...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

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