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  3. February 2019

Re: converting to service program etc

On 2019-02-17 6:45 PM, Craig Richards wrote:
A few other things you end up having to think about when you start using
sub-procedures:

- You now want to return a value to be sensibly used in an expression -
but how do you tell the caller when something goes wrong?
- Generally I THROW an error in the sub-procedure and catch it in a
monitor block surrounding the sub procedure call (at some level) If you
haven't seen this technique before it's a nice one to know.

Another related way to handle this issue is to also add an optional parameter to receive error information. If the parameter isn't passed, send the exception.

Here's an RPG Cafe blog post I wrote about this issue a few years ago.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/b542d3ac-0785-4b6f-8e53-f72051460822/entry/return_code_or_exception?lang=en


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