RE: Overloading in RPG.

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Albert, 

Ask that question of the java developers that use overloading in their APIs.
:)

I wouldn't have seen any benifit to it, but once I started doing some Java,
I thought it was one thing Java had over RPG.  Just my opinion, though.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: York, Albert [mailto:albert.york@nissan-usa.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 1:20 PM
> To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Overloading in RPG.
> 
> 
> 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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