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  3. January 2010

Re: RPGV?

Hi Dennis,

I suspect that the rules that govern the operation of BIF are closely
tied to the rules that limit our procedures' abilities.

There are existing precedents of BIFs working in an overloaded fashion.

For example, the %DEC() BIF can take a Unicode, Alphanumeric, Date, Time or Timestamp field as it's first parameter. Indeed, the 2nd parameter is different for a D/T/Z field than it would be if it were a character string.

The same is true of the %date(), %char(), %int(), etc, etc BIFs... they all can take their input from just about any data type. Something we can't really do with subprocedures.


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