RE: Overloading in RPG.

["York, Albert" <albert.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I still don't see any benefit to overloading. It seems like an opportunity
for confusion.

I don't see how you have simplified maintenance any. You still have 4
subprograms to maintain. 

In addition, I don't see how there would be any guarantee that these
routines would do the same thing, just because they have the same name. As I
understand it, they are entirely different.

I would prefer to have one procedure and do any necessary conversion in the
program. 

For example:

        DDaysDur          PR             5I 0
             D CharDate1                      8A
             D CharDate2                      8A

        C                   Eval      Cdate1 = Ndate1
        C                   Eval      Days = DaysDur(Cdate1: Cdate2)


Albert York     


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