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  3. February 2005

Re: Time to get serious



What about something simple like address book functionality?  Vendors,
Customers, and Employees all have the same core requirements of a name
and address.  In an OO language you would write the address book
object once, then drop it in as a base struct in the vendor, customer
and employee data struct.   You cant do that in RPG ( or ILE ).

Why can't you? I can code the following in RPG, isn't that what you're talking about?

     D Address_T       ds                  qualified
     D   Street                      30A
     D   City                        13A
     D   State                        2A
     D   ZipCode                     10A

     D Vendor          ds
     D   Account#                     4S 0
     D   Terms                        3A
     D   Contact                     30A
     D   RemitAddr                         likeds(Address_t)
     D   SalesAddr                         likeds(Address_t)
     D   SupportAddr                       likeds(address_t)



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