RE: Overloading in RPG.

["Alistair Rooney" <alistairr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Correct me if I'm wrong (Hans?) but doesn't method overloading (as opposed
to operator overloading) require some fancy form of late binding. Now I am
not a compiler expert but I'm almost certain that RPG does not do this
special form of late binding. I know it does late binding of some
description but is this enough. By the way I take issue with the statement
that overloading is not part of OO. METHOD overloading is very much part of
polymorphism which is a key section of OO. Yes you could argue that the
mechanics behind it are found in non OO languages but this misses the point
IMO.

 Alistair Rooney
Software Engineer
Tibbett & Britten Africa
+27 31 2047701

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Subject: Re: Overloading in RPG.


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