Re: ILE Concepts

Nah - Dieter would still disagree with me.

There is clearly no "best" solution. Only the one that works best for your shop.

Dieter and Birgitta both clearly deal with shops that are far more disciplined than many (most?) I have worked with - but in that environment their approaches work.

For me - trying to teach newbies how to do it in a simple practical manner I tend to use an approach with minimal failure points.


Jon P.

On Nov 2, 2022, at 4:06 PM, Thomas Burrows <thomas.burrows.1957@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

is it possible that one of the SERVICE program really smart people organize
this discussion?

Perhaps Susan Ganter and Jon Paris.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 2:49 PM dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
dieter.bender@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<Jon>
" (it's only using procedure names, not parms)" - At run time (which is
what
you were talking about) it is using the slot number compiled into the
program at creation time. That is why it is critical when managing
multiple
signatures to realize that the _only_ one that really matters is *Current.
</Jon>

my statement was:
"- errors will be forced to activation time as far as the compiler could
do
(it's only using procedure names, not parms)"

I was talking about the compiler and this is using the names of the
exports.
Using export *all and doing all needed rebinds will prevent most runtime
errors, wich are related to export/import.

Adding exports to the end of the binding list and faking the signature is
the same as adding new fields to the end of a table record and faking the
format level id with levelcheck no and avoiding some rebinds is not enough
to do so.

D*B

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