Re: Style choices

I agree absolutely. No magic code. I particularly hate it when I go into a
screen or print file and find a field so where did it come from. Search the
program. Never loaded. Finally compile program and find a database table
and then trying to figure out where it actually gets loaded. The
programmers laziness is the maintenance programmers nightmare.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'll use subroutines for a quick & dirty little task - depending on the
usage - but it's pretty rare.

99% of the time, I'll use procedures. Local variables alone are worth it.
Return values are..... invaluable.

As to *INZSR.... I have NEVER used it. I despise "magic" code. Something
that just happens without me telling it to? No way.

I always have an Init() procedure or subroutine instead of *INZSR.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power

-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth
Martin
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 5:25 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Style choices

Sometimes I befuddle myself. This is one of those times.

It was suggested to me that we should be using PR & PI instead of
subroutines. Is that a good suggestion? Does that include *INZSR too?



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