Re: Activation Groups and Modular Programming

M
Hello Frank,

You wrote:
>I have come to a tentative conclusion that AGs are a way to isolate or
>rather insulate a program from other programs within a job.
>One can then invoke a function and be reasonably sure that it will
>not affect or be affected by other programs within the job.
>A parrallel concept is local variables, where one can name a
>variable what one will and be sure that it will not affect other
>variables nor be affected by other variables provided that is local.
>In short AGs facilitate modular programming.
>John and Martin am I close to the mark or wildely off.

That conclusion is exactly right.  Activation groups can be thought of as 
walls to isolate one set of components in a job from another set in the same 
job.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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