Re: Why do procedures require DFTACTGRP(*NO)? -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Why do procedures require DFTACTGRP(*NO)?
From: Gary Guthrie <garyguthrie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 11:47:30 -0600
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Ummmm...

Sure, the superficial aspects of subprocedures (readability and such)
are important, but a HUGE benefit that nobody is mentioning is
reusability. Put procedures in a service program and any exported
subprocedures are available to all application programs.

Gary Guthrie

Jon Paris wrote:
>
> Why subprocs not subroutines?  Because one takes parms, returns values,
> isolates variables and can be read as English - and the other is a
> subroutine <grin>

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