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  3. August 2004

Re: Declaring Java classes and methods

Joe Pluta wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know why the parameters for class and method name are
> constants?  

Mea culpa.  I confess that I never even thought of supporting variables.

Is there anything in the compiler that would preclude the
> ability to use variable names, just like we can with EXTPGM?  Obviously
> that wouldn't work with bound procedures, but couldn't Java calls get
> away with it?
> 

I think it would be a fairly straightforward enhancement to allow
variable names for Java calls.  Do you have an example scenario where
you'd want the class name or method name to be a variable?  (The
signature (return value and parm types) would have to be fixed.)

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