Re: Is this really new ?

I believe you do a lot of .NET (correct me if I am wrong) and being that you rail on signature violations so much I would love to hear how they could be made better (I have my own ideas, but believe they are different from yours). IMO they do serve a purpose and if you do your builds and binder language correctly they you should really only ever get signature errors when it is important to get one (i.e. like when a program that should have been recompiled wasn't).

What does .NET offer in the space of letting you know at runtime that something has changed and how does it let you get around it while still executing the code?

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

Steve Richter wrote:

I think the wish list has to be divided into two. One list contains
what only IBM, the owner of the closed source OS, can do. The 2nd is
what Zend and other software providers can do. Only IBM can expand the
10 char object name limit or provide access to ILE procedure
invocation process ( so that signature violations could be safely
avoided at runtime, procedure calls could be marshalled across the
network, etc ). A 3rd party can write a 5250 client, but only IBM can
write the server side that the RPG talks to when it reads and writes
to a display file. Of course, if the same IBM that profits so well
from open source Linux would give back an open source IBM i ...