RE: Qualified sub-procedures

Actually, I believe you can have procedure names up to 4096 characters (on
V4R5), that should be enough shouldn't it. :)  And, yes, I also would love
qualified subprocedures.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) [mailto:ALBartell@taylorcorp.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 3:44 PM
> To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: Qualified sub-procedures
>
>
> IBM'ers
>
> I know this has been asked before awhile ago, but what is the
> outlook on
> getting qualified subprocedure names?  The corporation I work for is
> currently re-writing a vast majority of their software and
> ILE is going to
> be used heavily.  This is a big concern for us because we
> want to try and
> leverage ILE as much as possible but this has come up as a
> major road block.
> We are now trying to find ways to make our sub-procudures unique in 15
> spaces (I think that's how many there are in V5R1) but still make them
> understandable and that is next to impossible when designing
> a large system.
> We have too much knowledge invested in RPG to use a language
> more suited to
> OO design so switching is for the most part out of the question. (even
> though I wouldn't mind;-)
>