RE: RPGV?

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>   As Paul mentioned, technically that's casting.  But the premise is
> the same: The resulting value is populated based on the variable type
> of the receiver.  The compiler can easily determine what type the
> target is and populate it accordingly.

It's overloading.  Casting is the practice of causing a function's return
type to be converted to something else after the fact.  Overloaded
return-type functions (possible in JAVA, by the way, and I think I C++)
actually (and "natively") return different types of result based upon the
type of result requested.

No doubt the compiler CAN do this.  But DOES it?  I mean, for any other
operation, is there a varied result type based upon the variable left of
equals?  I think not.

Dennis Lovelady
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