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  • Subject: Re: CONST vs. VALUE
  • From: Gary Guthrie <GaryGuthrie@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:03:52 -0600

Value passes by value
Const passes by read-only-reference.

Gary Guthrie
NEWS/400 Technical Editor


"Stone, Brad V (TC)" wrote:
> 
> What's the difference between using CONST and VALUE on ILE parm lists?  I
> have always used VALUE.  It seems to do the same thing as CONST.
> 
> ie:
>  D QCmdExc         PR                  ExtPgm('QCMDEXC')
>  D                              256    Options(*Varsize) Const
>  D                               15  5 Const
> 
> Just wondering.
> 
> Brad
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