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Virtuoso Code Generator Enhancements
by Trude Ko
Data and Languages Division
Virtuoso Code Generator, version A.02.02, introduces numerous
enhancements. The following is a list of the major changes. A detailed
description of the enhancements is provided in the article titled
"Virtuoso Code Generator Enhancements" in the "Technical Articles"
section in this Communicator.
* WHILE construct added for looping while a condition is true.
* RETURN construct added for exiting a FOR, WHILE, INCLUDE, or MACRO.
* FOR construct enhanced to allow the retrieval of all relationships of
a relationship type, or the retrieval of all entities of a specified
entity type.
* GETENT construct enhanced to set ^fdNUMENTS^s to zero if the entity
does not exist, and then keep the entity name in the internal table.
* LET construct enhanced to provide arithmetic operations.
* IF construct enhanced to allow boolean conditionals.
* OPTION construct and INFO string enhanced to allow the construct
character (#) to be changed.
* PRINTKEYWORDS construct enhanced to provide users with more control
in printing keywords.
* SECTION construct enhanced to allow it to occur inside an ENTRY
construct.
* ENTRY construct enhanced to allow unnamed entries within a section.
* DESCRIPTION construct enhanced to not suppress blanks in the
"COMMENT=" string.