RE: Qualified procedure names

["Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Check the archives for "Overloading in RPG".

He he...  I am the one that started that thread last year.  I am just a
little stinker aren't I:-)

RPG is GREAT!  But to keep up with the hype of Java and everything else it
is going to have to change a lot faster.  We can call a java program from an
RPG program, great, but why not give RPG the finer points of java so I don't
even have to bother?

<soapy box>
The people that still develop in RPG III can stay there because they
obviously like to maintain their code that way and don't like to learn new
things.  But when I hear IBM say that is why they don't modify RPG faster I
just want to throw my hands in the air and forget about RPG catching up
anytime soon.  I may be asking too much because I know that RPG is thought
of as a business language, but I think that is hindering its capabilities
for future expansion.  Why shouldn't RPG be able to write a MP3 player app
(reaching a little far but you get my point).
</soapy box>

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: John Taylor [mailto:jtaylor@rpg2java.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 4:48 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Qualified procedure names


Aaron,

> I will speak up also!  I think qualified procedure names would be the
bomb!
> I can say that I would have not even thought if I had not learned Java.
> Sometimes I wish I hadn't learned Java because every time I do RPG I start
> thinking about how I could modularize and OOize stuff.  Like if RPG had
> overloading I would love it!

That's what I'm afraid of; that many RPG programmers aren't asking for these
enhancements because they've never been exposed to them, so they don't know
how useful they can really be.

> Is "overloading" in RPG's future?

There was a lengthy thread regarding this about a year ago. Check the
archives for "Overloading in RPG". However, based on the resistance to
qualified names, I suspect that we'll never see overloading in RPG. At least
not during our careers.


John Taylor


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