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  3. January 2010

Re: RPG overloading (was RPGV?)


On 14/01/2010, at 10:56 AM, Jon Paris wrote:

And while Barbara is implementing that feature perhaps she could add
the "always" option that I've been asking for for years <grin>.

What I mean by this is a form of CONST that _always_ takes a copy and
passes that. Right now it only produces a copy if there is a mismatch
between the parm passed and that expected. I'd like to be able to
guarantee that my data doesn't get changed no matter what happens in
the called routine.

Ah, the COBOL "BY CONTENT" phrase. One of the few things COBOL does better (??) than RPG.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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