RE: Please vote for Syntax check in /FREE!

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| [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Taylor

| You need to spend some time familiarizing yourself with these concepts

That would be true.

| 1) RPG already has some operator overloading:
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|       eval myNumber = firstNumber + secondNumber
|       eval myString = firstString + secondString
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| Just to be clear, the operator is the "+" sign.

I know what operator overloading is, and am fully aware that this is a case
of it.

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| 2) What everyone is excited about is procedure overloading, not operator
| overloading.

I'm not so excited, for reasons which I have stated.  Others have stated
better (to be redundant, Mr. Greenspun's article).


| 3) Neither one of those things makes RPG an OO language.

These sure take RPG in the general direction, which folks on this list
appear to like.

Why don't all y'all that want this stuff use Java?  Why does RPG need to
become like Java??

| Relax, JT. Hans has made his position on this issue abundantly clear on
| many occasions. He has no desire to see an OO RPG language. He's in
| AGREEMENT with you.

My impression was that he highly favored procedure overloading.  Be glad to
be corrected on that matter.

| before you begin to debat them.

I used the term operator-overloading in error.  You satisfied, John?