RE: Benefits of Sub-procedures

Ah, you put procedure source in a /COPY and its prototype in another /COPY?
Interesting design decision, not one that I would have opted for. 
This all gets back to that damn SEU, doesn't it?
Stop the madness, IBM should make SEU chargable and force people to use
Notepad, at least then they can open multiple source members at the same
time!


Bob Cozzi
Cozzi Consulting
www.rpgiv.com


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of G Armour
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:11 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Benefits of Sub-procedures

--- Buck <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For a very first step, I would omit the *MODULE and put the entire
procedure
> in one /COPY member while putting the PR in another /COPY member (I use
> QPROTOSRC for that.  Thanks to David Morris for the suggestion!)  So, I'd
> have 3 source members:
<snip> 

Thanks for laying that out, Buck!  For the little I know about procedures,
this
would seem to be a good way to get the feet wet, but nothing more.  I have
not yet
seen any responses (if there are any) to my post yesterday, but wouldn't one
want to
move quickly to service programs as opposed to coding inline sub-procs?

I have a thing or two against using /COPY.  No version control.  Library /
File
names get changed, will all the programs that use /COPYs get modified to
reflect
this?  (Or will some poor sap discover years down the road that /COPY
LIB/FILE(MEMBER) is no longer, and good luck finding it.)  Given the choice
of using
/COPY or including the procedure source in the main program's source member,
I'd
always take the latter.  But given the choice between that and service
programs, I
think I'd always (usually?) take service programs.  My thing against /COPY
is just
opinion only, based on my experience.  No holy war please.

GA

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