Re: /Copy books - yes or no? -- RPG400-L

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Yes, impossible to live without them for prototypes and definitions. NEVER
used for executable code; that is always in a module bound to some
executable.

Stu

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:21 PM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 3/11/15 5:19 PM, Sam_L wrote:

Yes, for things like constants and prototypes.

Never did like them for executable code, though. IMHO, way to much
chance of undesirable side effects and way to many dependencies needed
in the using code. Callable programs or procedures should be used
instead.

Yes. Enough pitfalls just cutting and pasting executable code, let alone
including it by reference.

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JHHL

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