by Unlicensed Unknown user
In the first article in this series I said that most Clarion developers use embed points the wrong way, and by doing so they make their applications more difficult to maintain, test, debug and document. Almost every Clarion developer has done that; I've done it too. In these articles I intend to show how you can improve your code base by taking the majority of that code out of the embed points.
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At first blush this looks like an ideal task for a procedure. Pass in the name of the TXA and an empty queue and get back a filled queue: presto! But here's why I think the procedural solution is hardly ever a good solution: there's almost always some new functionality you will ant want to add which doesn't fit into the existing procedure.
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