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

It's there already: check the %IF

Result = %IF(MyField = 'A' : 'Yes' : 'No'); // Assigns 'Yes' or 'No


On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM Marco Facchinetti <
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> Christmas is approaching and perhaps the compilers' team is in the mood for
> gifts:
>
> https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4748
>
> Best regards
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> Il giorno ven 12 dic 2025 alle ore 18:24 James H. H. Lampert via RPG400-L <
> [email protected]> ha scritto:
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> > On 12/10/25 8:04 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:
> >
> > > It's a single pass through the source but it gathers information that
> it
> > > can use multiple times.
> > >
> > > The compiler usually allows forward-referencing, so you can code
> LIKE(x)
> > > where x is defined later.
> >
> > Interesting. But note my exact words: "pure single-pass." As in
> > compiling directly from source to executable in a single pass.
> >
> > Pascal is pure single-pass. Forward-referencing is explicitly prohibited
> > except for *very* limited circumstances, involving an *explicit*
> > declaration as such.
> >
> > Then again, when he designed Pascal (purely as a teaching language for
> > structured programming), Niklaus Wirth had some really stupid ideas in
> > his head. Like the notion that a FOR loop will always run to completion
> > under normal circumstances (even though it's trivially simple to come up
> > with cases in which FOR is the preferred loop construct, premature exit
> > is the norm, and completion is the exception).
> >
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