Re: RPGV? -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: RPGV?
From: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:07:47 -0600
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John

You have encountered one now - who has known of that stuff for years.

;-)

john e wrote:

Namespaces / overloading has nothing to do with OO.
OO is all about encapsulation.
You don't encapsulate anything with namespaces/overloading.

OORPG... please

First try to make the current version of RPG a bit more sane...

And why bother, i never encountered an RPG programmer who even heard about terms like "encapsulation" or even "variable scoping", let alone use it.

-snip-

Follow-Ups:

RE: RPGV? , Dennis Lovelady
RE: RPGV? , john e

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