RE: No Subroutines (was Re: Debugging many subprocedures) -- RPG400-L

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Subject: RE: No Subroutines (was Re: Debugging many subprocedures)
From: "John Taylor" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:45:03 -0600
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> And procedures can be misused most horribly.  One of the 
> worst offenses I see is procedure with a bunch of return 
> opcodes strewn throughout it.
> At least with a subroutine you can stick a breakpoint on the 
> ENDSR and know it will get there.

Isn't that the truth. As if forcing a programmer to replace all subroutines
with procedures is going to make him any less of a bonehead. A bad
programmer will make a mess out of his code using procedures just as easily
as he does with subroutines. 


John Taylor

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