Prompting for Subprocedures (was DDS Support)

[Jon.Paris@xxxxxx]

 >> What else is it doing besides getting a record? Does it lock it? ....
If there's no documentation, I have to look at the source.

The point I'm trying to make is that in no way would a prompting system
help you here (other than helping with parm sequence).  I always put the
documentation with the PRs - that way you have it in your own listing
without having to look at anything else.  What makes you think people will
document commands any better than PRs?  Not to mention the fact that PRs
offer a lot of facilities for which there is no equivalent in CL.

Anyway, our collective resources would be better spent trying to code
prompting support in Code/400 and SEU ourselves.  Even if IBM ever did
anything it would not be in SEU - SEU is dead and the sooner everyone wakes
up to that the better. Of course if you did it for RPG you'd have to do it
for C (not to mention C++ and Java - which already has it within VAJava).
If you did it for subprocedures why not for all program calls, etc. etc.

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