Re: Why you shouldn't be afraid to use VARCHAR in RPGLE
Daniel Gross <[email protected]>
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Hi Birgitta, > Am 13.12.2025 um 18:11 schrieb Birgitta Hauser <Hauser-bRAHsVz2yv4TVIZRl6KS/[email protected]>: > %IF does not (yet?!) exist. > But it would be easy to code ... and for different data types the function can be overloaded. Well - yes and no - of course you can overload the input parameters - but until now, it is impossible to also override the return value type. All procedures (functions) in a override have to return the exact same type. So you would have to create different functions vor each return type. ifChar( 1 = 1 : 'Hello' : 'World' ); ifInt( 'Y' = 'N' : 1 : 0 ); ... and so on. So a %BIF would be much easier, as it could return an arbitrary type. Regards, Daniel -- This is the RPG programming on IBM i (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: https://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request-+hD5IHI5Xscn3HwCXmMcX9BPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at https://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l. Please contact support-FMtJrHiV//lnDLsaKlm4mFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org for any subscription related questions.