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Nathan, you're welcome to not like our naming conventions. :)

Our exported procedures begin with a $. That's just something "I grew up with." That said, I like it. When in a program (not a service program), a procedure call starting with $ is clearly an external procedure. This has helped some people I've worked with that are new to the idea of service programs.

-Kurt

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 1:37 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: In-house Reusable Code: Publishing and Documenting

From: Kurt Anderson
Here is a screenshot of one of our pages:


I hope my question is not too off topic, but I looked at the screen shot and saw procedure names starting with the dollar sign $. Personally, that drives me crazy. What is the story behind shops that begin procedure names with $ and #. I see that often enough that I gather there is some significant meaning or history behind it, but I've been left out of the loop.

What am I missing?

-Nathan

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