RE: What's the difference?

["Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To add to Buck's list I also like the ability to NOT pass a parameter if it
is not needed -- options(*nopass).  One update that might be coming out is
the ability to "overload" an RPG sub-procedure, and those who have used
languages with overloading know that this is going to be some icing on the
cake.

RPG _will_ be java someday, without the need for a JVM;-)

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro [mailto:Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net]
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 9:00 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: What's the difference?


Frank wondered:

>Why would a programmer choose writing a
>subprocedure over writing a program?

In my opinion, performance is the big reason, and parameter type checking is
the secondary one, with the ability to embed a procedure call within an
expression coming in third - like eval custName = getName(custID).

I bet that other folks would put these in a different order, not to mention
coming up with reasons that I didn't think to include.
  --buck
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