Re: Why use PHP? What are the disadvantages?

Ahh I get you, that method should be named with a name that states it is
async. I don't really think that, async methods in really an OO problem. I
could write async methods in RPG if I wanted using a data queue and another
thread. If I didn't name my method appropriately then no one would know.

.NET has a convention that would see your example changed to

abc = new myAjaxCall();
result = abc.beginResult();

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Neill

if you issue

abc = new myAjaxCall();
result = abc.result;

your result field will be nothing because the ajax call hasn't finish when
you ask for the result in the upper scope

Henrik




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I don't understand what you mean by scope executes asyncrone?

Scope isn't that hard to understand, and already exists in RPG sub
procedures anyway?

May be RPG doesn't need full OO abilities, but all I can say is my bext
most
flexible RPGIV code has been written in a pseudo oo fashion.

Where a handle is returned to represent the object and it is passed to
"member methods" that accept the object as a parameter.

Would it really be hard for IBM to put some syntactic sugar around that
and
pass it off as OO.



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The hardest thing to understand in OO is the scope you are in and that
scopes executes asyncrone - like Nathan I wouldn't like RPGLE to have full

OO capabilities, there is no need for it.

/Henrik




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From: Neill Harper
So why isn't there a demand for OO RPG, I want it ;-)

I would REALLY prefer that IBM NOT make RPG a fully OO Language!
Procedural interfaces are better for a business oriented language, IMHO.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Barbara Morris shared a little technique a
number of years ago, which I've used extensively. OO languages generally
use the "new" keyword to instantiate new objects, which encapsulate
properties and methods. As an alternative, consider doing something like
the following in RPG:

myPointer = myObjectNew();

Where myObjectNew() creates a new instance of a data structure, using
%alloc(), and returns a pointer to it. That data structure represents a
new instance of your object. All other procedures in the service program
reference a particular instance of that data structure via "myPointer".

For "inheritance" purposes, consider writing service programs which are
essentially wrappers around other service programs, but provide
successively higher levels of abstraction.

Forget "polymorphism", it's not worth it.

Just suggestions,

-Nathan.