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Re: Question about prototyping

Duane,

Are you saying that you *don't* like using wrappers to dumb down API
interfaces? I would have thought dumbing things down is an excellent idea...
Much better to have a sndPgmMsg() with parameters in a 'useful' order and
with lots of them be optional than have to call QMHSNDPM passing all the
parameters, surely?

I'm a big proponent of creating API wrappers (in fact, I wrote an article
about it a couple of years ago -
http://systeminetwork.com/article/api-wrapping-examples).

Rory

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Christen, Duane J. <
Duane.Christen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There is no way, using QMhSndPm, to have the sending program be anything
other than the caller of the API, which is one reason we use copybooks to
define the API interface. The other is I HATE wrappers to "dumb down" an API
interface.

Duane Christen


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