Great article!
For the several years, I have been deleting the prototypes for INTERNAL procedures in The code, NOT NEEDED! Less of maintenance overhead headache too!
If I want to see all the "prototypes", I merely look at the outline view with RDI 9.5.0.3!
I only have to maintain the procedure parameters in one place, the Internal Procedure!
Which is great when writing code, you do NOT have to bother to make sure the Prototype & procedure parameters are in synch! Only update the Internal procedures! (Single place to define INTERAL proc parameters)
Of course for Service programs, you still need the copy-book (/include) to the have the prototypes/dcl-pr. Since they are EXTERNAL to the program.
-Ken Killian-
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Bucknum
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Of course Jon and Susan have a great article that explains the changes that went in with 7.1. You don't always need a prototype now.
http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/developer/rpg/prototyping-best-practices/
Kevin Bucknum
Senior Programmer Analyst
MEDDATA/MEDTRON
Tel: 985-893-2550
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I don't have an answer, but I do have a question.
What do you mean by: " internal subprocedure with only a PI"
Are you saying you don't have a dcl-proc and end-proc? (Doesn't compile for me.) Or are you saying that your subprocedure is empty aside from the dcl-pi? (Shows up in outline for me.) Or something else I'm missing entirely.
Thanks,
Kurt Anderson
Lead iSeries Developer – Application Development, Service Delivery Platform
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 6:18 PM
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Subject: [WDSCI-L] Error in Outline view processing?
Before I go to the trouble of opening a PMR can someone else please confirm this for me to make sure it is not just me.
It seems that when the compiler rules re Prototypes were changed, the code that builds the Outline view was not updated.
If I have an internal subprocedure with only a PI definition then it simply doesn’t appear in the outline view at all. In my case this particular subproc was used as the handler for XML-SAX so I thought that might be the cause - but I have since checked with another ordinary subproc and the result ins the same.
Interestingly the same outline view has also “lost” at least one stand-alone field. It just isn’t there despite being used in a number of places.
P.S. The code compiles just fine.
Jon Paris
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