Re: "WordWrap" and temporary s

shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming) writes: >In <randall.723872563@seashore> Randall Rhea writes: >[Stuff deleted] >> One of the things I like about Informix-4GL is that it does NOT >> have all them "bells and whistles." [...] >I sorry but this is completely the wrong attitude! The highlight bar >in display array is an obvious requirement. The fact that so many >people have had to hack together a fix is enough to show that. >Dynamic arrays are also a known requirement. To simply say you can >simulate it by doing such-and-such is completely wrong. I mean why >bother with INPUT ARRAY? With juditious use of INPUT, DISPLAY and You are taking my comments out of context. I am not saying that 4GL is perfect and cannot be improved. There have been many good suggestions in this newsgroup on how the language can be improved, including the ones you made. But Informix-4GL is a programming language. I was simply reacting to an article that demanded that it be something else. (e.g. a forms generator like SQL*Forms) I like having a tool that is a true programming language. It provides the flexibility essential for complex business applications which, IMHO, SQL*Forms does not. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Randall Rhea Informix Software, Inc. Project Manager, MIS Sales/Marketing Systems uunet!pyramid!infmx!randall