RE: Sub-Procedures (Follow-up Question)

I would agree Buck, but as I am sure you know; sometimes we do not get to
decide on the coding standards and processes. We are making improvements
and I am working on adding additional skills that I just did not need before
or never thought of using.



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Subject: Re: Sub-Procedures (Follow-up Question)

Jon Paris wrote:

There is only one "nuance" in program parameter passing normally and that

is

to realize that if a program is called from the command line that numeric
parms are 15,5 packed - I won't go into the rest of it here - it is well
covered in the FAQ. Quite why some shops adopt the char method of passing
parms and the resulting error prone code that goes with it is a mystery to
me.

Jon, I know that _you_ understand this, but since this is one of my hot
buttons I'll kick in my opinion for the greater good. Passing by
character doesn't help either because long character fields have the
exact same problem when passed as literals. Long is greater than 32
characters. It's in the FAQ. Search for 'garbage' http://faq.midrange.com

Jon is absolutely right that you really ought to pass the actual data
type rather than force everything to character and back. Let the
compiler help you with your coding chores...
--buck