Re: Replacing *entry plist

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"mlazarus@xxxxxxxx" wrote:
> 
> Barbara,
> 
>  Is there a possibility to add *CURRENT as a special value for the EXTPGM()
> keyword?  That way if the source gets renamed we wouldn't have to remember
> to change the hardcoded value.
> 

Mark, prototypes are meant to be used by both calling programs and the
program itself (so for EXTPGM, the prototype should be in a /copy
file).  The EXTPGM keyword is really more for the callers anyway, so I
think it should be hardcoded.  For the program itself, if the command's
PGM parameter and the EXTPGM parameter are different you just get a sev
10 message; the EXTPGM parm is ignored and the program gets created
exactly the same as if you had the EXTPGM correct.

I realize that some people put an EXTPGM PR in the main source code
instead of having it in a /copy file, but I don't think we should add
something to the language to make it easier to do that.  Even if you
currently don't have an ILE RPG caller, you may have some day, and it
would be silly to have to edit the program source to move the prototype
into a copy file and even sillier to create another prototype to call
the program.