Re: how to let my program sleep a while

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is the way C does it (an #INCLUDE file) and other languages have borrowed
from this, quite successfully I believe.

If it were me writing this, I would use the /COPY member and declare and 
constants
in that.  Perhaps put most of my constants in one file.

Regards,

Jim Langston

paul cunnane wrote:
> 
> > It looks like a Prototype would make sense for using
> >
> >    C   CallP  Sleep('for' '00:30:00')
> >
> > or
> >
> >    C   CallP  Sleep('til' '16:30:00')
> >
> > command then?
> 
> This raises an interesting question.  If I was coding this, I would tend to
> use symbolic constants (I don't trust string literals):
> 
>     D   FOR       C               0
>     D   UNTIL     C               1
> 
>     C   CallP  Sleep(FOR '00:30:00')
> 
> The question is, how do I make these constants available to the client of a
> service program?  I can't EXPORT a CONST from a module.
> 
> The workaround I have used is to code the constant declarations into the
> /COPY member with the prototypes, which makes them available to both the
> service program and the client.  Is there a better way?
> 
> --
> Paul
> 
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