AW: AW: Problem with nrc 2.02

[Thomas.Schneider]

Hello Patrick,
   ... obviously you did start earlier than I with Rexx. But I'm 56, and did
use various computer languages a lot. And also wrote a lot of preprocessors
...

Anyway:
   
   1) did you ever take the chance or time to run one of your older Rexx
Programs thru 'Rexx2Nrx'.
   2.) we are working here in an Austrian group (Rony Flatscher, Walter
Pachl, and me) to deliver Rexx2Nrx 5.00
which is a synonym for 'Orexx2Nrx', ie. it will convers IBM Object Rexx to
(NetRexx) and Java ........
   
   Interesting for you ?

   3.) When you DO have 'good REXX testcases', pls forward them ...

Anyway, good luck in your projects ... If I may help, let me know ...
Tom.

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Patric Bechtel [SMTP:[hidden email]]
> Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 6. Februar 2003 19:28
> An: [hidden email]
> Betreff: Re: AW: Problem with nrc 2.02
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> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:57:51 +0100, [hidden email] wrote:
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> Hello Thomas,
>
> thanks for concerning about my prob; I'm probably one of the oldest
> Rexx (12 years)/NetRexx (6 years) programmers... :-) I simply love Rexx!
> I can work around this problem using another not that much overloaded
> routine with simpler typing semantics than write(String).
> My complain was just to show some "annoyances" with the NetRexxC
> compiler, just to make it EVEN better...
>
> But nevertheless, thanks!
>
> Patric
>
> >Hello Patrick,
> >  when needing FILE I/O in NetRexx, you might find the Rexx2Nrx.RexxFile
> >class useful. This implements 'classic Rexx like' linein, lineout,
> etc....
> >You will find the doc on www.Rexx2Nrx.com
> >RunTime routines ... best regards, Tom.
>
> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >> Von: Patric Bechtel [SMTP:[hidden email]]
> >> Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 6. Februar 2003 00:48
> >> An: [hidden email]
> >> Betreff: Problem with nrc 2.02
> >>
> >> Hello Mike, hello all,
> >>
> >> I've two quite annoying probs with the current NetRexxC compiler:
> >>
> >> Sample netrexx file:
> >>
> >> options binary strictcase strictargs
> >> [...]
> >> outWriter=FileWriter(outfile)
> >> s=String
> >> [...]
> >> s='test;'id';'name';'count';'CRLF
> >> outWriter.write(char[] s.toCharArray())
> >>
> >> the last two lines are translated to:
> >>
> >>
> s=netrexx.lang.Rexx.toString(netrexx.lang.Rexx.toRexx("test;"+id+";"+name+
> >> ";"+count+";").OpCc(null,CRLF));
> >> outWriter.write(netrexx.lang.Rexx.toRexx(s.toCharArray()).toint());
> >>
> >> There are two probs with this code:
> >> 1) I cannot access the write(String) method of the FileWriter class.
> >> Whatever I try, NetRexx always tries to choose the
> >> int version of the write method. I've never seen that before, but in
> the
> >> IO classes. But maybe anyone has seen a similar
> >> effect too.
> >> 2) Concatenating strings via + in Java is a very bad thing; the code
> would
> >> better look like
> >>
> s=StringBuffer("test").append(id).append(";").append(name).append(";").app
> >> end(count).append(";").append(CRLF).toString();
> >> This would have two very important advantages: It would have less
> object
> >> creation (each + creates 3 intermediate objects,
> >> as it creates a Stringbuffer, appends one String to another, converts
> it
> >> to String, so we have 6*3=18 garbage objects,
> >> plus a garbage Rexx object. The second advantage would be the fact that
> >> the Stringbuffer append method is null capable;
> >> so calling the above thing with a null name wouldn't result in an NPE,
> >> which is not very nice in the current
> >> implementation.
> >>
> >> But the most annoying thing in the moment is not being able to access
> this
> >> write(String) method.
> >> Could you write a fix for that?
> >>
> >> tia
> >>
> >> Patric
> >>
> >>
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