Re: Impossible to even think about rewriting in RPG

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not sure what you mean as you can't declare local variables twice...

Unless you're talking about parameters on the procedure interface and
prototypes...

Yes, that's what I was talking about.

I'd agree that it's a slight pain...as would IBM which is why they
removed the requirement for a PR for local procedures in 6.1 (or 7.1?)

According to someone else in this thread, it's gone in 7.1, but that
doesn't help me. ;)

Particularly with WDSCi or it's successors as
you can have multiple editable windows into the same source.  So it's
easy to have one at the bottom where the procedure is being written
and one at the top where the prototype needs to go.

See, this is the kind of thing I'm talking about where the IDE might
be able to provide enough assistance that it reduces my excuses for
avoiding use of prototypes.

Lastly, WDSCi has a "New procedure" wizard that automatically creates
the PR along with the P and PI for you.

And *this* is precisely what I was referring to by "maybe the IDE can
generate the boilerplate for me". Granted, sometimes wizards are
crap, and I would have to try it for a while before I decided whether
it was more help or annoyance. But nice to know it's there.

Seriously, if my company ever upgrades their i and provides us with
powerful enough development workstations, I do think I'll give a
full-blown IDE real consideration.

John Y.