Re: subroutines are bug factories was: Classic Traps -- I need your input!

Subprocedures have their place.

And so do subroutines. I have used both where they make sense. But to
suggest that all RPG programs everywhere have subprocedures instead of
subroutines is arbitrary and capricious thinking. Change merely for change's
sake is never a good idea.

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Francis Lapeyre <flapeyre@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

And so we're back to square one.
What, again, Steve, is the advantage to having local variables when you
have
to name them all differently anyway in order to keep them separate in

your

head?

why do you think you have to assign unique names to subprocedure
variables?
just follow the rule that subprocedures never reference global variables
and
you will have more readable code.
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