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  3. October 2003

Re: Overloading (Was: Please vote for Syntax check in /FREE!)

Buck wrote:

Carel wrote many good things:

<I snipped much good stuff I am unqualified to answer>

But then, I would have thought there was a
(limited) way of overloading in RPG: using
*OMIT and *NOPASS on the prototype
and checking with %PARMS and the inbound
CEE-API's within the procedure.



This is sort of true.  The problem is that operational descriptor support is
not good enough yet, so the CEE APIs don't return everything we need to
have.  JT's alternate to CEEDOD of passing the data type as a parameter is
about the best workaround so far.
  --buck


And in all likelihood, OD support will never be good enough.

One of the reasons overloaded procedure names is an attractive alternative is that everything can be sorted out at compile-time.

Cheers! Hans



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