Re: 15,5 Revisted (Was Call Query)

["Vasant Patel" <vasant.patel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Right on John !
Structured parameter is the best way....it worked on S/38 too...

Cheers!

Vasant


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From: jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM <jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM>
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 12:17 AM
Subject: RE: 15,5 Revisted (Was Call Query)


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>Pass parms as structures.
>Do not build apps based on whether you can call them easily from the
>command line.
>Users will never use the command line.
>john carr
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>I'll side with the people that curse the 15/5 rule.  Yes Richard, you are
>right.  Go ahead, make your RPG program accept 5/2, then try to call that
>sucker from some new GUI application, or make the call to the program from
>some other place, or need to adopt authority, or... It really is a
>nuisance and I can admire any shop that says "No numeric parms".  I get
>burned with this just often enough to swear off using numeric parms.
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