Re: Scope of variables and subprocedures.

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tend to agree, Barbara, that nested subroutines are
not top priority.  In fact, for all the years I've been programming
in Pascal and C, I don't think I ever actually had to rely on
the nesting of procedures.

I would either pass the parameters, or use global variables.
I would always keep my use of global variables to a minimum,
and I found this to work quite well.

The one thing I would like to see is true functions, such as the %BIFs,
that return a value.

This may already be the case, but I've yet to find out how to code it
(V3R7M0) and is probably just a limitation on my OS version.

Regards,

Jim Langston

bmorris@ca.ibm.com wrote:

> <SNIP>
> I realize that C's deficiency doesn't mean RPG isn't deficient.  I agree
> that nested subprocedures would be nice to have, but I can't say that it
> will happen in my "lifetime" since there are other things that RPG needs
> that are more important (in my opinion anyway).

<SNIP>

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