When you execute a method within a DATEPART or PUT function, you might see syntax errors such as the following:

ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: _NEO_, _NEW_.
ERROR 76-322: Syntax error, statement will be ignored.
ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.

The syntax errors are not related to the execution of the _NEW_ or _NEW_ routines, or to the lack of these routines in the SCL application. Instead, the errors occur because the particular function does not currently support the dot notation syntax.

As a workaround, you can retrieve the value from the method into a variable, and then pass the variable to the function. Here is an example:

  dcl object someinst = _new_ someclass()
  var = someinst.somemethod()), 
  varout = put(datepart(var),date9.);

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