Re: Binding directory question

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/01/2009, at 1:59 AM, David FOXWELL wrote:

> If there were two different functions with identical names and (god  
> forbid) identical parameters and the compile command stated to  
> ignore duplicate name errors, would binding occur? Has anyone tried?

You will get a binding error. I don't recall the message ID.

You can work around that with OPTION( *DUPPROC | *DUPVAR) but that's  
a sloppy solution and you cannot control which of the duplicates the  
system will use--it will pick the one from the first module it  
encounters that contains that name but there is no method by which  
you can specify the behaviour.

As I recall, you've raised this topic previously and we've already  
told you the proper solution. Why are you persisting with bind-by- 
copy for everything? You should be using service programs. A single  
binding directory containing all the modules will mitigate your  
current problem caused by programmer-level binding directories but  
is, at best, a kludge to work around a problem caused entirely by  
using the wrong approach to ILE development.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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