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  3. October 2003

Re: Benefits of Sub-procedures

Hi Hans,

Isn't that also an advantage of a dynamically called program?  IIRC, the
original post was asking why procedures are better than dynamically called
programs.

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Peter Dow
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> This brings up a point I thought of after posting my rant that I
> should have mentioned: Suppose you wanted to change the way
> transaction numbers were generated. Perhaps you want numbers to be
> persistent? Perhaps you want characters other than digits in your
> transaction numbers? Whatever. Coding the new transaction
> computation within a procedure (or wrapped in a class) allows you to
> more easily change the rules without affecting the calling code,
> making maintenance easier. Yet another advantage of the procedure.




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