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Bob Cozzi wrote:
Because 10 times out of 10 RPG programmers who create a subprocedure and evolve
them to a service program go through the following learning experience:
[SNIP]
That doesn't mean you should always use EXPORT. It means you should use
EXPORT if you don't know what you're doing...
There are very good reasons to NOT use EXPORT. In particular, knowing
that a procedure is "internal" makes the code easier to maintain because
you know that nobody can possibly be calling it from outside the module.
You can therefore change the interface of the procedure without having
to research all of the callers, and potentially change them. This makes
it easier, and saves significant amounts of time.
At least having the name EXPORT makes it pretty self-explanatory what
the keyword does! (Unlike "static")
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