Re: Benefits of Sub-procedures

Hey, maybe have the precompiler search for BEGSR's and kill the compile?  

Rob, it's not that I'd never RETURN from within a subroutine.  It's just that 
I'd
never tolerate a one-statement subroutine.  Never.  Don't even go there.  

GA

--- rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> And that's a good way to evolve.
> 
> Stop using subroutines, no matter how simple.  And use subprocedures 
> instead.  While the subroutine may be too simplistic to make sense to 
> bother with the PR's and PI's it's a good discipline to stick to it as a 
> "Commandment from God" for two to three months just to get into practice. 
> And then, only then, go back to using subroutines when it's really 
> simplistic.  Or you have some special need like having RETURN exit the 
> program and not just the subprocedure.  (There are those who feel that 
> exiting a program from a subroutine is a violation of structured 
> programming and is punishable by (your humorous situation here)).
> 
> Then as you evolve you can decide which subprocedures might make sense to 
> move to a service program.
> 
> Rob Berendt


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