Re: members

[John Hall <jhall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Earl wrote:
> 
> Source files are a different issue, I'm not sure how IBM would ever get away 
>from using source members.  It's too deeply embedded in the culture.
> 
> jte

IMHO source code NEEDS to become an object.  We have an object oriented
operating system and almost everything on the system designed that way.

How many programs do you have out there that you have to do something
other than a 14 option in PDM to compile.  (Allow NULL, OVRDBF, Special
widths on Printer files etc etc etc. A source code module that is object
oriented would know about the special settings required to compile it. 
The source could even become part of the same object as the PGM.  In
effect there would be a single object for each source/PGM that would
know how to compile itself and all of the options that were used at
compile time to create it.  If you were pressed for space you could even
"compress" the object by not storing the executable portion of the
program and telling the system to "uncompress" it at run time similar to
the way the system converts CISC code to RISC code as needed.

Once the source is an object new methods can be added to the object
easily.  This would also make the transition to JAVA more seamless as
true java programs must contain all the information required to compile
them as part of the program.  


John Hall
Home Sales Co.
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