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I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote it (I'm sure I thought I was
cleaver) but I wrote a subprocedure that pulled the next invoice number.
That in itself is good, but then in the calling code, I had to do this:
dInvoice = %subst(%char(%date():*iso):1:7) + '-' +
%subst(%editc(GetNextInvoiceNumber():'X'):2:7);
WHAT THE?!? Ideally it should be:
dInvoice = GetNextInvoiceNumber();
Normally I wouldn't re-factor things like this, but now other software will
soon be creating invoices and needs to get invoice numbers. What dangers
are there in changing the subprocedure from a decimal return field to a
character? I have tracked down all of the programs that call this function
(that I know of). Or should I create a new subprocedure and leave the old
one just in case I missed something? For course if we change the format of
the number, we will quickly have problems that way.
--
Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me
midrange.com
