RE: Qualified procedure names

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Maybe it's because there just aren't that many of us
>doing ILE development yet.

I still hear that RPG III is plenty good enough and that climbing a new
learning curve simply isn't worth it.  From programmers.  They view me as a
special case who needs RPG IV and ILE because I'm the interface guy and I
don't do 'day to day' stuff.

>Or maybe the concept hasn't been clearly
>explained to those unfamiliar with languages
>other than RPG.

Well I think I got it.

I write an in-house function (oops.  Procedure) named qsort.  That function
is a special quick sort for  putting toll records into temporal order.  You
have written an RPG implementation of the C qsort() and kindly put it on the
Web.  I really could use that to replace a home-grown binary sort that I've
been using in lieu of LOOKUP.  When I try to bind your service program,
there are two 'qsort' procedures and I can't tell the compiler that I want
my qsort for the tolls work and your qsort for the LOOKUP replacement, as in

callp taylor.qsort(array)
callp commsoft.qsort(customer_key)

How'd I do?
  --buck