Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!pan!jw
From: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Informix 4gl forms - formonly syntax broken
Message-ID: <475@pan.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 88 09:36:41 GMT
Reply-To: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Organization: Adasoft AG, Solothurn, Switzerland
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The Informix 4gl manual describes use of the 'formonly' field type, with
several associated keywords ("type", "like" and "not null").  However, the
4gl forms compiler *only* accepts the "type" keyword as the first keyword
following the field-name.  THis means that it is not possible to declare
formonly fields that are "like" some database field, and it is not possible
to declare formonly fields "not null" without declaring a type for them.

The examples given in the 4gl manual conveniently do not use any of the
optional keywords in the formonly declaration.

jw