Re: RPG overloading (was RPGV?)

If it can be done without breaking compatibilty, I'd vote to do it without a keyword. The keyword would only making the coding uglier, IMHO.

Column cram in the keyword area is a bit of a problem today... it feels like almost everything I code on D-specs these days is in the keyword area. (Though, even so, I think my D-specs are prettier than Bob Cozzi's DCL opcode. Blech.)


Barbara Morris wrote:

Scott Klement wrote:

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Obviously there'd have to be SOME SORT of keyword on the prototype itself, otherwise you'd break backward compatibility. But I don't think she was suggesting that it require you to specify the from/to variable types.

There wouldn't necessarily have to be a new keyword. Currently, the cases where this would be needed are the cases that don't compile. Similar to the way CONST works, the compiler would only need to use this temporary when it would otherwise issue a diagnostic.

I'm of at least two minds on this - part of me thinks the compiler could just do it as needed, and part of me thinks there would need to be a keyword.