Re: Ignoring a RETURN'ed value

["ile rpg" <ile_rpg_guy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Right...sigh...let me go Dobby myself for the next five minutes...

   >From: Scott Klement <KLEMSCOT@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
   >Reply-To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
   >To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
   >Subject: Re: Ignoring a RETURN'ed value
   >Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:37:45 -0600 (CST)
   >
   >
   >Hello,
   >
   > > I'm going to refactor the program to RETURN the value.  But I don't
   want
   > > to change the thousands of places it's used in hundreds of
   programs.  Yes,
   > > I could write a new program, but I donwanna.
   >
   >Programs can't return values with the RETURN op-code.  Did you mean a
   >procedure?
   >
   > > The question: if I have a return field specified in the prototype but
   do a
   > > CALLP  {program}(parm1: parm2) instead of doing EVAL {result} =
   > > {program}(parm1), will there be h^ll (with a nod to the SMEX luddites)
   to
   > > pay?
   >
   >Nope, just a severity level 0 warning in the compile listing...  Your
   plan
   >will work perfectly, aside from the fact that program's can't return
   >values :)
   >
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