RE: Qualified sub-procedures

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

Thanks for the response Barb,

I think my want for qualified procedure names comes more for a want to
create my own data types within the language and the qualified procedure
names are just a step in that direction.  If we were given the ability to
create our own data types then I would have no need for the qualified
procedure names, I would just have to be able to qualify the instantiation
of an object so I could specify directly which procedure I was referring to.

I can see all these steps being taken to simulate our own data types (work
with me here -- ILE sub procedures, QUALIFIED data structures, etc...) I
guess what I am wondering is when RPG is going to make the leap to being
able to create it's own data types?  I think that would be a revolutionary
step in the life of RPG as a programming language and would greatly benefit
the language as far as new interest goes.

my $.05 (inflation),
Aaron Bartell



-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Morris [mailto:bmorris@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 11:18 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Qualified sub-procedures


"Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" wrote:
>
> Any comment on the qualified sub-procedures Barbara?
>

I can only give my own personal opinion:

I realize that coding mod1.MyProc is fundamentally different from the
do-it-yourself mod1_MyProc, but mod1_MyProc isn't that bad.  Qualified
subprocedures wouldn't necessarily solve all the name-collision problems
anyway, unless they were library/srvpgm/module qualified.  I really
don't see -that- happening any time soon, nor do I think anyone would
really want to code mylib.mysrvpgm.mymodule.MyProc when making calls.
(I just had a premonition that there would be requests for some way to
alias such a name to a simple MyProc :)

Anyway, me, I think there are missing features that are -much- more
important for RPG, since the do-it-yourself versions are awkward at
best:
- "unlimited" character/DS length (that is, no RPG limitations over
  whatever system limitations there are)
- multi-dim arrays
- varying-dimension array


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