Re: Why you shouldn't be afraid to use VARCHAR in RPGLE

Thanks, James. 


> On 12/10/2025 12:25 PM EST James H. H. Lampert via RPG400-L <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 12/10/25 4:06 AM, Infodorado InfoDorado via RPG400-L wrote:
> > The RPG compiler is a single-pass compiler
> 
> No, it can't be pure single-pass. If it were, then a program in which a 
> variable is NOT defined in a D-spec, nor in the first C-spec in which it 
> appears, would not compile, much less run. And it's trivially simple to 
> construct an example of this (it took me about 2 minutes), and it 
> compiles and runs just fine. I'd quote the source here, but it would 
> likely be mangled beyond recognition.
> 
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