Re: MAIN and LR -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: MAIN and LR
From: Dave <dfx1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:56:59 +0200
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2012/9/26 Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>:

For me, the most compelling reason to use a linear
main is that all your RPG procedures look the same, except that one of
them is designated as the first procedure to be called when the program
is called.

I didn't buy that, as I think programmers identify the main procedure
as the one that has no interface and therefore containing the first
executable code.

The other big benefit is that a linear main procedure can be called
recursively.

That's more interesting to me, so programs CAN be called recursively?

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Re: MAIN and LR , James Lampert

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