Re: Can RPGLE simulate OO programming?

That wouldn't solve the problem.  an "object" in an OO language can
have methods (i.e. procedures) that you can call.   You can declare
an array of objects, or different objects of the same type, and
each one has its own copy of the routines that you can call.

Just allocating memory for a data structure doesn't really solve
this problem.

Furthermore, I'm wondering what your design accomplishes?  You call a
service program with an externally defined data structure, and then
it does the operation that you would, otherwise, do directly.

What does this save you, in terms of maintenace?   Or coding?
All it does is add overhead.


"Eric N. Wilson" <doulos1@home.com> wrote:
> I was just thinking... Perhaps you could have a service program per
>  file and
> as the first parm you would pass the operation and as the second par
>  a
> pointer to a DS and optionally a third parameter also a parm to a DS
>  The DS
> could be allocated dynamically by either the service program or the
> application but then you would be able to have arrays of objects and
>  perform
> the action upon it via the parameter interface.
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