Re: the word 'static'

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I guess I didn't state what I trying to say to well.  When I say a subroutine,
I generally mean a routine that is passed parameters and returns parameters.
Such as in C, Pascal, etc...

When talking about non RPG specific things, such as Static variables, I 
sometimes
fall into the habit of calling these subroutines instead of the RPG term,
subprocedures.

For everything that was discussed here, an RPG subroutine (BegSR... EndSR) could
be considered to be inline to the main body of the program.

It's sometimes gotten my ire up that IBM has renamed a lot of the industry 
standard
terms, Subroutines -> Subprocedures, Directory -> Library, Library -> Directory,
etc.. although that was not intended by IBM, it just happened by the way the 
AS/400
matured.  They had parts of code you could call called Subroutines, just as 
Basic
did in the early days (GOSUB) but in basic they were usually called "Gosubs".  
Then
when Basic followed C and had callable Functions and Subroutines they called 
them
that, Functions and Subroutines.  IBM already had something called Subroutines 
so
they needed a new name to avoid confusion, hence the term Subprocedure was born.

Fine and dandy if all you talk about is IBM AS/400s, but when you start talking 
about
programming in general it gets confusing to me, which is why I sometimes refer 
to
AS/400's subprocedures as subroutines.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!

Joep Beckeringh wrote:
> 
> > And, yes, to me Subprocedure and Subroutine are synonyms.
> 
> Hm.  How would you call a subroutine within a subprocedure?  (Yes, that IS
> possible).
> 
> Joep Beckeringh
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