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Hi Roger,

Sorry, but "Despise" seems pretty harsh. "magic" code? Are all your files USROPN? Do you feel the need to explicitly open and close every file? Do you always put in "return" at the end of every procedure even if it doesn't return a value? If you know what something does, is it still magic?

I dislike coding level breaks when RPG will handle all that for me. I know what it does and when it does it. I effectively told it to do it when I defined the level breaks the the L1-9 indicators. I know what the *inzsr subroutine does when I use it -- by using it, I told it to do that. No magic here.

My opinion of course.

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On 9/9/2015 12:02 PM, Roger Harman wrote:
I'll use subroutines for a quick & dirty little task - depending on the usage - but it's pretty rare.

99% of the time, I'll use procedures. Local variables alone are worth it. Return values are..... invaluable.

As to *INZSR.... I have NEVER used it. I despise "magic" code. Something that just happens without me telling it to? No way.

I always have an Init() procedure or subroutine instead of *INZSR.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power


-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth
Martin
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 5:25 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Style choices

Sometimes I befuddle myself. This is one of those times.

It was suggested to me that we should be using PR & PI instead of
subroutines. Is that a good suggestion? Does that include *INZSR too?



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