Re: back to: improving rpg. was: what is object oriented programming

 Now I am more confused.  
 
When I add pure numbers I have no concerns for leap year or for months with
varying number of days.  With numbers I supposed you had a base, like
decimal or binary and whatever they call that 16-base thing.  (You can tell
they didn't have computer courses back when I went to college.)  But with
dates you move in to another whole set of problems and decisions about
conclusions that have no underlying mathematical certainty.
 
 
 
---------------------------------------------------------
Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
---------------------------------------------------------
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Thursday, May 08, 2003 12:31:02
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: back to: improving rpg. was: what is object oriented
programming
 
Booth Martin wrote:
.It'd seem to me that adding
> 1 year, 2 months, and 6 days to February 27th and getting the correct
answer
> back even in a leap year is about as OO as one can get?
 
...
Regarding your specific example, that's really no different than 
adding 1 thousand 2 hundred and 6 to some number, which is clearly 
not OO. ...
 
Which brings me back to my original point. Let's discuss specific 
RPG enhancements on their own particular merits, and not because 
they fit some definition of "OO".
 
Cheers! Hans
 
 
 
.