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These are my sentiments exactly! I one thought out and designed a whole system for calling a seperate "library of functions" to access a file, and in the end came to the conclusion that this wouldn't buy me ANYTHING but complexity. The externally defined files ALREADY provide you with as much of a layer of independence from I/O operations as these external routines do! I guess I could see doing this if I thought the files would soon be located on another computer, on another platform, where I'd save the work of re-writing all of the programs involved. But how often does something like this ever happen? It never has, for me. On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, York, Albert wrote: > On the surface it seems like a good idea, but what have you gained? > > I still have to define the record in my program, so if the file changes I > still have to change all the programs that use that file. > > Also, if I do the READ in my program, it's obvious what I am doing, and > error handling is pretty straight forward. If I call a separate program > which does the READ, what have I gained? I have all the overhead of a > program call and no clear advantage, that I can see. All you're doing is > adding one more layer of complexity. > > The only place where a program like this would be useful is if it is called > from a CL program. > > Albert York > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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