RE: Please vote for Syntax check in /FREE! -- RPG400-L

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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Carel Teijgeler
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 3:14 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Please vote for Syntax check in /FREE!

>How are you certain that this (overloaded) procedure getName will return
the
>correct name? If two procedures expect a numeric value and you pass a
numeric
>value, will the first procedure not accept the "call" and return its found
name?
>the similar problem applies to character values. Just wondering.

Carel, you are correct.  The overloads cant be, as the compiler error
message will say, ambiguous.  Thats why overloads work best when the
arguments are data structures.  Consider a genericly named "ToString"
procedure. You might code such a procedure, where it makes sense, for each
externally described data structure in your application.  So "ToString(
CustMast )" returns a concat of CustNbr and CustName.  "ToString(
OrderHdr )" returns OrderNbr + BillToName.

-Steve

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