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  3. January 2010

Re: RPG overloading (was RPGV?)

Jose Antonio Salazar Montenegro wrote:
Ah, answered before reading your second email.

I don't know why, but %Div always struck me as interesting. It accepts
packed, zoned, binaries or integers and can return packeds or integers.

We have a mix of 2 digit date fields (YY, MM, DD) declared as binary,
integer, zoned or packed numbers. I tried to make a few date procedures
to handle all those variants. Thanks to the lack of overloading, it
turned out nastier than using old trusty data structures. The
versatility of %Div bit me there too.


%DIV() takes numerics as arguments and produces a numeric result. Like
other built-in functions, the formats are irrelevant.

Hans

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