Re: Binding Directory - was RE: /***** RPGIV Enhancement Suggestion *****/

["Joe Teff" <jteff19@xxxxxxx>]

> Let say I have two service programs that contain the subprocedure MyProc()
> and these service programs are in two entirely different binding
> directories.  Now, if I have an application that happens to have use
> MyProc() and I specify both binding directories.
>
> Now, I get an error saying that MyProc() is defined twice.  What I would
> like is for it to only use the first one it finds, kind of like finding a
> file in a library list.  Either order it the way the binding directories
are
> ordered on the CRTBNDRPG command, and/or the order it finds them in the
> binding directory.  (Thus a sequence would be needed for binding
> directories?)
>
> Make sense?  I know it may be "bad practice" to do this, and there are
other
> ways around it, but if it worked like library lists and files (first one
> found is the first one used) it would make it more versitile.
>
> Bradley V. Stone

I would agree that this is the desirable way and it's also the way most
AS/400
folks would expect it work.

Joe Teff

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