RE: Question about prototyping

I wouldn't call these procedures in copybooks, I would call them procedure interfaces in copybooks.

We have hundreds of them, mostly system APIs, but we have implemented a few of our most complicated procedure interfaces with copybooks. We have 4 copybooks per most interfaces. So for QMhSndPm (Send Program Message) we have:

DQmhSndPm - D Spec definitions (Prototype, structures, fields, etc...)
ZQMhSndPm - Initilization (*INZSR - Allocate storage, Initialize values etc...)
CQMhSndPm - C Spec (Call the procedure/API)
LQMhSndPm - Cleanup (*INLR - Deallocate storage etc...)

Duane Christen

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rory Hewitt
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 11:29 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Question about prototyping

Adam,

Smart-alec is my middle name. Along with some less-printable
ones! <grin>

Actually, I've never seen anyone else do this, so I wasn't
sure if I was being a smart-alec or whether I was actually
providing useful information.
Who knows???

Happy Holidays to all!

Rory

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Adam Glauser
<adamglauser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rory Hewitt wrote:

As a response to the "...procedures should _not_ go in

copybooks..."

line.

There are occasions where I include both a prototype and the
procedure

code

itself within a single copybook.

You know, I was thinking about qualifying that to something like
"procedures should rarely go in copybooks", because I figured some
smart-alec would come up with an example like that. Thanks

alot Rory.

:)

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