RE: Subroutines vs Subprocedures was RE: Indicators

Joe P and Bob C:
It is true that using you save some typing time when using sub-routine.  
However, the problem comes when sometime in the future you happen to have to 
create a sub-proc and it really need to execute one the of sub-routine that was 
created because of you want to save some tying time.

Joe L:  
For some reasons you seems to think that it is reaaaally bad to access/update 
global variables from sub-proc.  I don't know about your shop, but if I apply 
such a rule in my shop, I don't think I will be using sub-proc very often at 
all.  All fields from F spec are global.  In most case, I need to use them in 
most of my sub-proc.  If would be quite a pain if I've to pass them in every 
time I need them.
I'm not saying that it is good to access/update them in sub-proc, but if you 
design it correctly, it should be fine.