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

Barbara Morris <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.as400.rpg
Organization IBM
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2025-12-11 3:50 p.m., Daniel Gross wrote:
> As RPG and C differ in a lot of spaces - I would suggest, to not make it so "non obvious" as the ternary operator in C - just make it a %BIF - e.g.:
> 
>      var = %IF( a = b : trueVal : falseVal );
> ...

That's what IBM suggested they would probably do in one of the answers 
to this Idea: "RPG - Conditional (Ternary) Operator (?:) in EVAL operation"
https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-1417

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Barbara

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