Re: module name and library

Barbara,

At 3/2/01 04:40 PM -0500, you wrote:
>But it's not exactly the same.  Once the module is created, the number
>and names of the procedures can't be changed.  RPG is a bit odd - it
>doesn't allow you to name the main procedure - it derives it from the
>module name when the module is created.  This was to make it easy to
>change all your CALLs to CALLB and create modules instead of programs
>and have everything work the same.  Unfortunately, it led to this
>common misconception that you can call modules (which you can't).

  Thanks for the explanation.  Are there any plans to add more SDS 
keywords?  *MODULE would be nice, for one.  I would imagine that it 
wouldn't be too difficult for the compiler to map most, if not all of the 
SDS positions into keywords.

  -mark

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