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  • Subject: RE: Externalize DB/IO (was What Counts as Technically Slick?)
  • From: "Nathan M. Andelin" <nathanma@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:38:01 -0600

>From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>

>I agree with John.  The biggest problem that I've run into is
>changing parm lists for subprocedures.  Now, after getting
>into Java and OO, this makes more sense to do, and I'm not
>sure why I didn't do it in the first place. It does make sense.
>I'd option to simply pass a pointer to a DS as the only
>parm.

Syntax # 1:

D myStructure E DS ExtName(myFile) Import

C Eval myReturn = myFunction()

Syntax # 2:

D myStructure E DS ExtName(myFile) Based(myBasePointer)

C Eval myReturn = myFunction(myBasePointer)

I'm trying to determine whether Syntax # 2 is better than Syntax # 1.  They
are functionally equivalent.  Under Syntax # 2, myFunction must explicitly
set myBasePointer to the address of it's version of myStructure.  Under
Syntax # 1, the pointer mapping is implied.

Any suggestions?  Thanks.

Nathan.


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