RE: OO in RPG

Yes, I probably should not have used the word "dynamic", since it has
come to mean something specific when doing a "call".

My apologies for that.

However, in the example I posted, the address of the "ShowMsg" routine
wasn't actually set until run time.   Sure, the possible addresses that
it could be set to were determined by what was available when the 
program was bound...    but since the actual assignment to the pointer
isn't done until run time, it could be arbitrarily switched between any
of the possibilies that were coded in my program.   Thats what I meant
when I used the word "dynamic".


On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Peter Connell wrote:

> It is clear that unless a program uses a service pgm then compiling and
> binding essentially occur at the same time. The fact that a service pgm is
> implemented through late binding, which occurs the time the pgm is
> activated, might be construed as subtle but the point I make is that, at the
> time the code is executed, all pointer references must have been previously
> resolved, essentially by hard coding them. In this context the term dynamic
> therefore has a subtle meaning.
> 
> Peter  
> 

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