RE: Starting out with sub-procedures

oops. I thought NOMAIN meant NoMainLine or no RPG cycle. Is this wrong, or
in conflict with the truth? 
 
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From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Monday, October 27, 2003 3:54:34 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Starting out with sub-procedures
 
 
> > You can have subprocedures and "NOMAIN" without any conflict. NOMAIN
> > means that you won't have a main procedure. You can have both a main
> > procedure and subprocedures both in the same module without any problems

>
> Do you mean sub-procedures and the <i>lack</i> of "nomain"? Can you have
> a MAIN procedure with "nomain"? I don't think so... the cycle must
> exist for an *ENTRY point, mustn't it?
 
NOMAIN specifically means that there is no main procedure. That's why
it's called "no main." :)
 
Did I phrase it incorrectly the first time?
 
Perhaps 90% of the subprocedures that I write go into the same source
member as my main procedure. I use them in a similar fashion to the way
you'd use a subroutine.
 
The other 10% of the time, I'm writing something that can be used from
many different places -- those routines get put into a "H NOMAIN" source
member, which gets compiled/bound into a service program with other
similar procedures