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the goto is seen by everyone as bad practice. but the subroutine is just
as bad.

Oh c'mon Steve, why did you go and make a comment like that? Subroutines
are VERY useful in modularizing code internal to a program. Just because
you can't have local variables doesn't put it into the same bucket as
GOTO's.

Maybe since you stepped out on the ledge to make such a statement you are
also willing to expound on it?

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 10:12 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Todays WTF

what these other programmers who have had to work with rpg code may be
reacting to is all the global variables and parameterless subroutines used
in a lot of RPG code. the goto is seen by everyone as bad practice. but the
subroutine is just as bad. RPG is not as bad as COBOL because COBOL code
also redefines its global variables.

-Steve



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