RE: Prototyped Procedures

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Just curious.  Why is that a concern?  I have developers here that are 
/copy phobic because they don't want to declare one more variable than 
what they need, and I am just not understanding.

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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Scott Klement wrote:

>> I think I see your point here.  It may well be that the best current 
>> solution is the one you suggest.  But it appears to me that this 
solution 
>> is a work around for the lack of data type definitions in RPG (i.e. 
>> typedef).  But that is RPG's fault, not yours.
>
> You can use LIKE and LIKEDS in pretty much the same way you'd use 
typedef in 
> C.  I do that all the time.

True, but unless I'm mistaken in RPG you would then have allocated space 
for one more variable than you actually need.  I also use LIKE and just 
live with the fact that my "typedef" in my copy memeber occupies memory 
instead of simply instructing the compiler how to lay out certain data 
structures.

James Rich

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