RE: RE: binder language, binding directories, bind by copy/reference

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Taylor
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:53 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: RE: binder language, binding directories, bind by
copy/reference

>And while we're at it, let me once again beg for qualified procedure
>calls. I'm tired of having to assign meaningless prefixes to my
>procedure names in the hope that they won't conflict with existing code
>at customer sites. Since so few sites actually use ILE, this has been
>workable so far, but I don't expect my luck to hold out forever.

Its namespace support that is needed.  For some reason, the builders of ILE
did not provide them.   With namespaces, all procs are members of a
namespace.  The proc can be called with a qualified namespace name:
    namespace::proc( ) ;

or the "using namespace" stmt resolves unqualified proc names to the using
namespace name.  Kind of like libraries and objects.

-Steve