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On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 18:08, Carel Teijgeler wrote: > Rob, > > Good arguments, and I agree totally. > > I, too, wonder why a lot are tending to write set- and get-methods with file > I/O. Either they read the same record many times to get each and every single > value, or they use a global variable somewhere, which is an absolute "No! > No!!" in their design principles, hence the use of those methods. Global variables have their place. In this case, they are in the same service program as the Getters and Setters. The are global to all the sub-procedures in the SRVPGM but are not EXPORTED variables. This is no different than in Java or C# as defining them as private class variables. Joel Cochran http://www.rpgnext.com
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