RE: Overloading in RPG.

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Isn't Java the really good and expensive coffee?

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From: Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) [mailto:ALBartell@Taylorcorp.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 8:20 AM
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Overloading in RPG.


>Again I implemented
>it in CL 15 years ago with one CL doing 15 functions passing it an
>externally defined D/S  with a Function Number being one of the
>subfields(ie 1- 15).
>Was it C++ or Java?  No, But it still used the "princple" of overloaded
>functions.

I don't think you understand what overloading is.  There is a difference
between deciding what to do when you get into another program vs. letting
the system decide what you want to do based on the parms you pass.  *nopass
is half-way there if you use that in ILE subprocedures but it is not
overloading because you still have to test with %parm and if statements to
know what to do base on how many parm were passed in.  

I am starting to feel like Joe Pluta when he was trying to explain Java to
us on the JavaL list:-)

Aaron Bartell
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