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Re: Secure coding practices

On 2021-03-04 7:34 a.m., Buck Calabro wrote:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 17:11, Dave <dfx1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

... In my opinion, when people in your group have a calm discussion
about the relative merits of C/SQL-style return codes vs Java/IBM
i-style exceptions, you're moving in the right direction for creating
a system that is robust. No, it's really not possible to 'handle'
every single error that can occur, but when I *think* about doing that
as a standard way of building an application, the results turn out
better for me. ...

I wrote a blog post in the RPG Cafe about the issue of return code vs exceptions for a procedure, and how to write a procedure that allows the caller to choose: https://ibm.biz/rpgcafe_return_code_vs_exception

(Actual URL is https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1119309)


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