Re: What is a Modern RPG Programmer???

Very few languages support nested procedures. PL/I anyone?


On Feb 5, 2018 5:36 PM, "Barbara Morris" <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2018-02-05 11:35 AM, john erps wrote:

To be clear,

I meant a subroutine *within* a subprocedure.

If you have some repeating code within a subprocedure that clearly belongs
(is specific to) the subprocedure it doesn't make much sense to make it a
full blown subprocedure, thereby falsely communicating that it may be some
generic code which it is not.

Just code a subroutine, which keeps the code clearly as part of the
subprocedure.

Just in case people missed it, there's an RFE for RPG to have nested
subprocedures.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=
viewRfe&CR_ID=103682

Most of the time, when I want to abstract out some code within a
subprocedure, either a local subroutine or a separate subprocedure works
ok. But there have been a few times when it was too awkward to have a
separate subprocedure, and it would have been nice to be able to pass
parameters to the subroutine I eventually created.

--
Barbara

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