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  3. January 2010

Re: RPGV?

Scott,

I think that Dennis was referring to "overloading" the result (return value) of the BIF, but the point is just as valid.

-mark

At 1/11/10 01:19 PM, you wrote:
Hi Dennis,

> I suspect that the rules that govern the operation of BIF are closely
> tied to the rules that limit our procedures' abilities.

There are existing precedents of BIFs working in an overloaded fashion.

For example, the %DEC() BIF can take a Unicode, Alphanumeric, Date, Time
or Timestamp field as it's first parameter. Indeed, the 2nd parameter
is different for a D/T/Z field than it would be if it were a character
string.

The same is true of the %date(), %char(), %int(), etc, etc BIFs... they
all can take their input from just about any data type. Something we
can't really do with subprocedures.


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