Informix Error -4498

-4498 Event/Handler name must be different from intrinsic member function

name.

You cannot declare an event or a handler with the same name as an intrinsic member function (!copy(), !derive(), or the name of the class). Change the name of the event or handler.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-4498 fires when an event or handler is declared with the same name as an intrinsic member function — per the official guidance, this includes !copy(), !derive(), or the class's own name (its constructor).

An event or handler declared with the same name as !copy(), !derive(), or the class's constructor, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.

Solutions / Resolution

Change the name of the event or handler, per the official guidance.

Examples

An event named after the class constructor

CLASS Order
  EVENT Order
  -- -4498: "Order" collides with the class's own constructor name
END CLASS

Corrected

CLASS Order
  EVENT statusChanged
END CLASS

Diagnostic Checks

Check every event/handler name against the class's intrinsic member function names (!copy(), !derive(), the constructor), and rename any that collide.

Related Errors / Related Topics

-4013 — "Invalid intrinsic member function "!name"." A related intrinsic member-function naming rule, about invalid !-prefixed function names rather than events/handlers colliding with intrinsic names.
-4021 — "A class member cannot be named "SELF"." A related member-naming restriction, about the reserved SELF identifier rather than intrinsic function names.

An event/handler is named the same as an intrinsic member function — rename it.