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This issue is one reason I want source in the IFS to work better. Most other languages have solved this problem in two ways. First, by structuring their source projects in a hierarchical file system to keep like pieces together and with files named for their classes or functions. The second piece of this is a documentation tool that retrieves documentation from the source. In Java this is JDoc. I have not used RPGDoc, but I suspect it is similar. Continuous integration tools are used with other languages to ensure that, among other things, the docs are generated every time code is promoted. this is something that is generally missing in the RPG world.
Mark Murphy
Atlas Data Systems
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-----Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05/16/2017 01:45PM
Subject: Re: Service programs: navigation
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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