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- From: debbj@sequent.com (Debbie Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Suggested Changes to 4GL
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.224144.20492@sequent.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 22:41:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: sequent.1992Dec15.224144.20492
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- My Christmas list:
-
- -All fields/literals on forms should have attribute bytes associated with
- them which you can control from a 4GL program. So for example, if you want
- to hide a field for some users and not others you could use the same form
- and set an attribute byte to display/not display the field.
-
- -Consistency between the code which RDS executes and the binary code.
-
- -Better documentation with better examples. The examples always explain
- the obvious.
-
- -Improved documentation on datetime/intervals -- the provided documentation
- is almost useless. Whenever I try to do anything new with them it takes
- a call to support and the faxing of some tech note.
-
- -Some sort of statements similar to #define in C.
-
- -Blob manipulation functions (compare, copy, append, etc) I had to write
- my own.
-
- -let reca.* = recb.* work for records containing a blob
-
- -Allow the NEXT FIELD function outside of the input/input array funtion.
- If you had fields that were similar on varied forms, you could create
- a one function to complete the edits rather than duplicating that
- same code all over the place.
-
- -Build in mechanism for error handling that stores data in tables and not
- in UNIX flat files.
-
- -Don't file the last page of a report with blank lines -- my users HATE this!
-
- -Get rid of termcaps, have some other more user friendly mechanism for
- communicating the key mappings.
-
- -A GUI
-
- -Debugger: Have a goto or re-execute function type of command
-
-
- Debbie Johnson
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