RE: RPG overloading (was RPGV?)

Roger,

Why wouldn't you use a result field for JoinDate ? Even for functions
as SplitDate I use return values (and provide a parameter that tells me
what to extract which indeed results in 3 function calls instead of one,
but as far as I'm concerned it's much cleaner code).

If you now need this in an expression, you first need to store it in a
variable.

And why those %int ? Just define the parameters as "10I 0 Const" and
there's no need to use the %int.

Kind regards,
Paul

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Harman
Sent: dinsdag 12 januari 2010 22:14
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: RPG overloading (was RPGV?)

I did miss that. I'm assuming that MyDate is a real date field or, at
least, always the same type??

What about....
JoinDate( MyDate : %int(myYear) : : %int(myMonth) : %int(myDay);

I'd still do SplitDate() with integer components. If you need to change
them after the fact, just deal with that.

Two procedures....