Re: Benefits of Sub-procedures

"look at the pretty colors..." 

Joel are you cooking mushrooms from the cow fields of VA on that fire? :o 
:)
And does it help when codin Sub-procedures? Cause I got a few programmers 
here the may need some of them, if it does. 

Just jokin.

Bill Hopkins
 




Joel Cochran <jrc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:19, Buck wrote:
> I believe from my experience that it is indeed possible and easy to ease
> sub-procedures into existing code a little at a time.  If a simple viola
> player like me can do it, _I_believe_ anyone can!  And I started out in 
the
> card age.  By the bye, Fire is cool!  Heh heh heh!  Yeah, cool!
>   --buck

I couldn't agree more: my first recommendation is to find a subroutine
that has been copied all over the place (c'mon, we've all got 'em!) 
Make a new *MODULE out of just that code, and the next time you work on
a program, replace the EXSR with the prototype /copy and a myProcedure()
call. 

Or you could download a tool library like mine and start by simply using
some of the procedures.  Little more than a RSTLIB and some /copys and
you are suddenly livin' in ILE-land.  Once you are comfortable using
them you really aren't that far from writing them.

Start there as a proof of concept and slowly work outwards.  There is
nothing saying that the old methods and the new methods can't live side
by side in harmony, but give it a couple of weeks and I bet you'll never
look back at the old methods...

And Buck, isn't "viola" french or italian for "ta-da!"? 

:-) Smiles as he warms his hands over the fire... look at the pretty
colors...

Joel
http://www.rpgnext.com 


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