Re: ILE Propoganda

["Chris Rehm" <javadisciple@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Plus, I do think it is important to keep in mind the weakness of /COPY, and
that is that you cannot see what context your changes will be made in. I
think someone mentioned this before in the thread, but it seems to get
forgotten. If you add a variable or (don't even think!) an indicator (I use
this because back in the days when I used /COPY I used indicators!) you
can't tell if that will affect the whole program. I quit using /COPY long,
long ago because of that. 70 of the programs that need changing might not be
bothered at all by your changes, but the last one might be very bothered.

While /COPY, with good rules in place, might certainly have its uses, it is
absolutely not the same as having localized functions.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Duzenbury" <rduz@westernmidrange.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>; <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: ILE Propoganda


> Don't know, and it doesn't matter with so much existing code that is like
> this.  Many of the shops I work with are loathe to have any parts of a
> program in more than one source member.
>
> Regards,
> Rich
>
> At 12:14 AM 6/23/01 -0700, James W. Kilgore wrote:
> >Gosh, how far back does /COPY go? :)
> >
> >Rich Duzenbury wrote:
> >
> > > Yes!  My job today is to update 71 RPG OPM programs.  They all call
the
> > > same subroutine, perhaps 5 - 10 times per record, over hundreds of
> > > thousands of records.  If the subroutine were an external program
call, the
> > > programs would be too inefficient to finish in the time allotted.
Thus,
> > > the subroutine was copied into every program as it was developed.
> >
>
> Regards,
> Rich
>

Chris Rehm
javadisciple@earthlink.net
If you believe that the best technology wins the
marketplace, you haven't been paying attention.


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