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Re: Impossible to even think about rewriting in RPG

On 6/27/2011 9:52 AM, John Yeung wrote:

I will happily agree that maintainability is a high priority. I would
contend, though, that subprocedures, in and of themselves, are not
significantly more maintainable than well-designed and well-executed
traditional structures. (One concrete example: changing a parameter
definition in a same-module procedure requires making a change to two
places in the code, typically very far away from each other, compared
to making a single change in a well-designed EXSR-using program.)

As of 7.1, it does not. Internal prototypes are no longer necessary.

Joe

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