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Subject: Re: Overload a system function like FormatDateTime with a user-defined one ?
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 11:12:36 +0200
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Mayayana,

> | I've been doing similar in VB_ projects for years by passing
> | an action index to a single function to tell it what to do;
>
>  Yes, I do that, too. Much less prone to confusion
> than overloading.

:-)   Without looking at the docs, in what format does the 'FormatDateTime' 
function return the result when you call it with the value 2 as the second 
argument ?


And have you ever programmed in DOS ?    It uses "int" as the entry point 
for all system functions, using an index for a certain group followed by a 
sub-index for the actual function (and sometimes a few more indices too).

Apart from a few you became to know by heart (because every program you 
wrote used them) you /always/ needed a "cheat sheet" to figure out the 
needed indices for the functions you didn't use all that often.

I have absolutily /no/ desire to re-implement such a system in VBScript too. 
Sorry.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser