Re: Binding directory question

On 24/01/2009, at 1:59 AM, David FOXWELL wrote:

If there were two different functions with identical names and (god forbid) identical parameters and the compile command stated to ignore duplicate name errors, would binding occur? Has anyone tried?

You will get a binding error. I don't recall the message ID.

You can work around that with OPTION( *DUPPROC | *DUPVAR) but that's a sloppy solution and you cannot control which of the duplicates the system will use--it will pick the one from the first module it encounters that contains that name but there is no method by which you can specify the behaviour.

As I recall, you've raised this topic previously and we've already told you the proper solution. Why are you persisting with bind-by- copy for everything? You should be using service programs. A single binding directory containing all the modules will mitigate your current problem caused by programmer-level binding directories but is, at best, a kludge to work around a problem caused entirely by using the wrong approach to ILE development.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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