Re: Impossible to even think about rewriting in RPG

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure what you mean as you can't declare local variables twice...

Unless you're talking about parameters on the procedure interface and
prototypes... Though technically the local variable is declared only
once; in the PI section.  This is perfectly acceptable though not best
practice IMHO.
d MyProc       pr
d                        10a

p MyProc       p
d MyProc       pi
d  parm1             10a



I'd agree that it's a slight pain...as would IBM which is why they
removed the requirement for a PR for local procedures in 6.1 (or 7.1?)

But even if you're on an older version, it's not a big deal to create
one or the other and copy and paste, you've only goto to change PR to
PI and you're golden.   Particularly with WDSCi or it's successors as
you can have multiple editable windows into the same source.  So it's
easy to have one at the bottom where the procedure is being written
and one at the top where the prototype needs to go.

Lastly, WDSCi has a "New procedure" wizard that automatically creates
the PR along with the P and PI for you.

HTH,
Charles

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:04 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I do find it painful to do without local variables.  However, I
> personally find it *more* painful to jump through the hoops of
> declaring my local variables... TWICE... than it is to just pick a
> naming convention that prevents collisions.  (And again non-ILE RPG IV
> helps with this too, with the longer names and prefix feature and so
> forth.)