RE: Objects and such

[vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Maybe you know about using procedure pointers and assigning them to a variable that is used on a CALLP, if I remember Jon's presentation right from the RPG@DB2 summit - he has an example of the world's most expensive pocket calculator - an iSeries. But this lets you have a single call statement but using different procedures based on the arithmetic operation you are processing at the time.

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From: "Aaron Bartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> 

> > The point is the programer has to explictly decide which function to call 
> ahead of time given certain 
> input 
>
> Kinda, but in reality you could have two of the samed named externally 
> defined service program sub procedures, and whatever one is found first is 
> the one that will be used. So you still have some dynamic-ness outside of 
> programming. In this case it would be based on *LIBL which could be 
> considered the same thing in the end I guess. 
>
> > Cool, but I think your stretching to call this override or inheritence. 
>
>
> How about "Manual Override"? :-) 
>
> Aaron Bartell 
> http://mowyourlawn.com