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

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Subject: RE: Benefits of Sub-procedures
From: James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:16:36 -0600 (MDT)
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, jt wrote:

> when compared to interfacing with an API using XML, for example!)  There is
> a fair bit of confusion about "best" practices in procedures, from THE most
> experienced and (imo) brightest people.

One thing that could be done when deciding what practices you want to
follow is to look at code in other procedure-rich languages.  There is
plenty of code out there these days that one could peruse.  Keep in mind
when talking to non-RPG programmers that what we call procedures are
usually called functions by everyone else.

James Rich

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