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  3. July 2008

Re: MCH1201 (Rcvr too small) on an _if_ statement???

David,

Evil? Really? Why?

To my view, a *PSSR allows *you* to control how errors are handled - you can
decide to set error codes etc., or bypass a RETURN within the *PSSR, thus
making OS/400 take control. You can dump the procedure, send error
mesages... the list goes on. Now, a badly-written *PSSR can be evil, but
that's like saying that the RPG Cycle is inherently bad or that guns kill
people...

Do you also think MONITOR-blocks are evil?

Rory

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:57 AM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rory Hewitt wrote:
thus *completely* masking to the caller the fact that anything went
wrong!

Personally, I think the *PSSR subroutine is evil. I only use it in highly
specific situations (like where the failure of a program should not
interfere with the execution of a job ... and the program in question is not
mandatory).

david

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