Re: Qualified procedure names

["John Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron,

> I will speak up also!  I think qualified procedure names would be the
bomb!
> I can say that I would have not even thought if I had not learned Java.
> Sometimes I wish I hadn't learned Java because every time I do RPG I start
> thinking about how I could modularize and OOize stuff.  Like if RPG had
> overloading I would love it!

That's what I'm afraid of; that many RPG programmers aren't asking for these
enhancements because they've never been exposed to them, so they don't know
how useful they can really be.

> Is "overloading" in RPG's future?

There was a lengthy thread regarding this about a year ago. Check the
archives for "Overloading in RPG". However, based on the resistance to
qualified names, I suspect that we'll never see overloading in RPG. At least
not during our careers.


John Taylor