> > I wonder what happens when values are passed back to Delphi/Pascal from > an RPC call. Since Mumps uses contextual typing and all variable values > are really ASCII strings and Pascal uses typed variables is everything > passed back to Pascal as strings? Or are some of these return values > already typed when Pascal first sees them? Does this make sense? > > James Gray
If the VA RPC Broker mechanism was a "standard" remote procedure call mechanism used by compiled languages, I believe that it would include some way to mark values with their data types. As I recall, the ASN.1 system was developed for this kind of "rpc" mechanism. As you point out, the VA RPC broker, uses a specialised protocol for sending messages. Some of the values are in binary, but I believe the most common ones are using a simple "string of character" data type. The Delphi/Java/Visual Basic etc. client then converts the data into the type that it prefers. David Whitten (713) 870-3834 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
