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  3. October 2003

Re: Please vote for Syntax check in /FREE!

jt wrote:
... You think procedure overloading is anywhere even CLOSE to a necessity in
**business application** design?? If you took a poll of ALL the RPG coders
(and I mean every last stinking one of us, not the people who frequent these
lists) then making RPG more object-orientated would be SO far behind
improving SEU that it wouldn't EVEN show UP as a choice on the poll!!!
...

jt: Others have addressed your other points nicely. This is really the only point I'd like to address.

First, as I've mentioned before, I have no desire to see RPG turned into a second rate object-oriented language.

Second, if you think adding procedure overloading brings RPG one step closer to being an OO language, I'm afraid you just don't understand OO design. Overloading may well be a feature of some particular OO languages, but the presence of such a feature is not a requirement of OO.

Cheers! Hans



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