Re: Procedure PR/PI question

If this is a problem, why not just define local variables in your program and set them equal to the parameters right at the beginning? Then use the local variables everywhere else, setting selected parameters equal to them on the way out _only_ if you
intend to send back changed values?

"RPG programming on the IBM i \(AS/400 and iSeries\)" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I agree with you if the receiving program had it coded as CONST but how
much control do we have over that? Almost all the programs that we call to
are legacy programs that somebody wrote 20 years ago and are still being
used. On my new job, I am having to call programs written years ago all the
time because that is what is out there. I cannot go into that old code and
change it to use CONST parameters. Like I said, if I am smart I will make
sure I make a local copy of any parameter that is passed by CONST and pass
that to a procedure but if I am not thinking that day I might screw up and
not do that.

Mike Naughton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Judd Wire, Inc.
124 Turnpike Road
Turners Falls, MA 01376
413-676-3144
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mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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