Re: RPG overloading (was RPGV?)

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis Lovelady wrote:
> ...
> You missed his point.  Sometimes MM is packed, sometimes it is in other
> formats.  He lamented that he'd need a different procedure for each format
> (and potentially for each permutation of possible combinations).

What would solve this problem would be a new style of pass-by-reference 
parameter, where the compiler would create a temporary of the type 
required by the prototype.  It would assign the passed parameter to the 
temporary before the call, pass the temporary to the procedure, and then 
assign the temporary back to the passed parameter after the call.