RE: RPG overloading (was RPGV?)

["Paul Nicolay" <Paul.Nicolay@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Roger,

Why wouldn't you use a result field for JoinDate ?  Even for functions
as SplitDate I use return values (and provide a parameter that tells me
what to extract which indeed results in 3 function calls instead of one,
but as far as I'm concerned it's much cleaner code).

If you now need this in an expression, you first need to store it in a
variable.

And why those %int ?  Just define the parameters as "10I 0 Const" and
there's no need to use the %int.

Kind regards,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Harman
Sent: dinsdag 12 januari 2010 22:14
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: RPG overloading (was RPGV?)

I did miss that.  I'm assuming that MyDate is a real date field or, at
least, always the same type??

What about....
  JoinDate( MyDate : %int(myYear) : : %int(myMonth) :  %int(myDay); 

I'd still do SplitDate() with integer components.  If you need to change
them after the fact, just deal with that.  

Two procedures....