Re: Is this really new ?

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I believe you do a lot of .NET (correct me if I am wrong) and being that
> you rail on signature violations so much I would love to hear how they
> could be made better (I have my own ideas, but believe they are
> different from yours).  IMO they do serve a purpose and if you do your
> builds and binder language correctly they you should really only ever
> get signature errors when it is important to get one (i.e. like when a
> program that should have been recompiled wasn't).

I think it  would be neat to have access at run time to ILE's
resolving of the procedures being called. We have much more CPW now
than when ILE was designed.  Procedure overrides and run time
resolution by name can be done without a performance hit.

But it does not matter. IBM is no longer in the language, OS and
runtime business. The only way we get the improvements ( and
enthusiasm ) needed to make the system competitive is if it is open
sourced.