Re: Service programs: navigation

If you are sensible you use a tool such as RPGDoc from the outset (https://sourceforge.net/projects/rpgdoc/) or Paul Tuohy's RPGLEDOC (http://systemideveloper.com/downloadRPGLEDOC.html).

That way you have complete on-line documentation from the get go.

This really is not a new problem - C and Java programmers etc. have been dealing with it forever. There's a good argument to be made that really we should have been using it for subroutines, programs and files for years. Service programs and subprocedures just exacerbated an existing problem.


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On May 16, 2017, at 1:45 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This leads to another point that has bothered me. How is the inventory of Service Program functions documented? How does a programmer navigate through the dozens of service programs and find the one that is exactly right? Or, not finding one exactly right, does s/he write a new one, modify an existing one, or copy and change an existing one? In early days that would seem like not much of a task, but after 8 years and 15 different programmers involved, it must become a bird's nest?


On 5/16/2017 9:17 AM, Bradley Stone wrote:

Or this to really confuse some;)
useLargeTrailer = (ibeamWeight(material: length: width: height:
webThickness:flangeThickness) > smallTrailerWeightLimit);

I prefer this but it can make debugging a little hard (even with your
example) since you won't ever see the value ibeamWeight() returns.

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