Re: More on Call or Bound Call

["Eric N. Wilson" <doulos1@xxxxxxxx>]

Indeed! Finally having local variables has made my life sooo much easier.
Even being able to declare a local variable as static is useful sometimes
(GetNextToken sort of thing)

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Eric N. Wilson
President
Doulos Software & Computer Services
2913 N Alder St
Tacoma WA 98407


----- Original Message -----
From: Buck Calabro <mcalabro@commsoft.net>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 10:10 AM
Subject: RE: More on Call or Bound Call


> You've heard my foaming at the mouth before, but I feel that THE biggest
> reason to go to RPG IV is local variables.  To be able to put a "function"
> like "parse last name/first name from a combined field" into a
> parameter-driven procedure means that you can write, test and debug that
> procedure once and reuse it forever!  RPG/400's "global only" variables
make
> that re-use difficult.  You'd have to copy the code from the working
> program, make sure the variable names and indicators don't clash with the
> new program's and test and debug all over again.  Either that, or write it
> as a separate program and pay the performance penalty.
>
> I've said it before, but as long as I'm on my soapbox, I'll say it again:
> RPG IV is not hard.  Don't focus on the opcodes, bifs, etc.  It's not
about
> the opcodes, it's about the way you use them.  It's the concepts you can
> implement now that we have a real language!
>
> Buck Calabro
> Billing Concepts Albany, NY
> mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Buzz Fenner
> > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 11:11 AM
> > To: Discussion RPG (E-mail)
> > Subject: More on Call or Bound Call
> >
> >I have two goals in putting these types of posts
> >on the discussion group.  One, as you may
> >guess from the subject matter of my original
> >post, is to gather useful information pertaining to
> >performance advantages of RPG IV over RPG III.
> >Second, will be to find opcodes, bif's, etc., that
> >provide added functionality over what my shop
> >has now using RPG III.
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