RE: Please vote for Syntax check in /FREE!

<Carel>
How are you certain that this (overloaded) procedure getName will return the
correct name? If two procedures expect a numeric value and you pass a
numeric value, will the first procedure not accept the "call" and return its
found name? the similar problem applies to character values. Just wondering.
</Carel>

Overloading would almost need to have custom data typing coupled with it to
make it extremely useful.  So I could pass in an object called GLName and it
would know based on the object type to look in the GL file for the name.


<Carel>
And on the topic of syntax checking:
Can any one tell me a modern free formatted programming language that does
syntax checking while entering code? I cannot think of any. So, if none can
be mentioned, then we were spoilt while coding in fixed format.
</Carel>

All of them that I have used except for RPG.  Java, PHP, .NET...  These
don't produce errors as you type, but the code changes color as you type so
you know if you have ended your quotes or function calls properly.  Is that
they kind of syntax checking we are talking about?

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Carel Teijgeler [mailto:coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 2:14 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Please vote for Syntax check in /FREE!


Just some thoughts on this:

How are you certain that this (overloaded) procedure getName will return the
correct name? If two procedures expect a numeric value and you pass a
numeric value, will the first procedure not accept the "call" and return its
found name? the similar problem applies to character values. Just wondering.

And on the topic of syntax checking:
Can any one tell me a modern free formatted programming language that does
syntax checking while entering code? I cannot think of any. So, if none can
be mentioned, then we were spoilt while coding in fixed format.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler.


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On 15-10-03 at 13:17 Buck wrote:

>> You think procedure overloading is anywhere even
>> CLOSE to a necessity in **business application** design??
>
>Here is one business function where I would find overloading useful.
>Imagine a function called getName.  I want to get my Vendor name, Customer
>name, Employee name, G/L account name, Company name, Division name, etc.
>Each of those files has a different key; some character, some numeric.
>Different sizes too.  It'd be nice to have such a feature where I could
just
>eval name=getName(whatEverKey) as opposed to the current requirement that I
>create a uniquely named procedure for each file.  I don't think of this as
>particularly object oriented, but it's useful for exchanging data with
other
>companies,in old EDI format as well as XML.



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