RE: Benefits of Sub-procedures -- RPG400-L

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What fascinates me even more is how many really bright people are getting
this stuff wrong. Just as I suspected, this stuff is not as easy as y'all
want us huddled masses to believe. 
 
 
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Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:19:19 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Benefits of Sub-procedures
 
I love it when you do that Barbara.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 7:51 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Benefits of Sub-procedures
 
 
Joel Cochran wrote:
>
> And to add to the fine points already listed, using procedures verifies
> your program calls at compile time rather than run time. An easy way to
> prevent parameter mismatches.
 
Joel, that's a benefit of prototypes, not of procedures. You can make a
prototyped call to a program.

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