Re: Main Procedure

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2014-04-07 11:09, Kurt Anderson wrote:
> For those who use the Control Statement (H-Spec) MAIN, do you usually give the main procedure a name unique to the program, or do you have a standard name such as mainProcedure?  I find that sometimes I struggle to name the main procedure.  In the program I'm working in now I settled on mainProcedure, which made me wonder how other people were naming their main procedures.
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If you will be calling the program from some other RPG code, you will 
need to use the same prototype for the callers as for the program 
itself. In those cases, it should be given a unique name.

Setting up a standard where you use MAIN(mainProcedure) might make it 
awkward to break the standard for a case where you need to call the 
program from RPG. So I think it's probably better to always give it a 
unique name.