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  3. August 2003

Re: "guessing" the parameter type.

Carlos,

>Besides it doesnt fits my needs of retrieving the data
>type using the address of a variable. 

The address doesn't carry that information.  Consider a data structure which
overlays a 2-byte character field as multiple data types:

 - 2-byte character
 - 5-digit signed integer
 - 5-digit unsigned integer
 - 4-digit binary
 - 3-digit packed
 - 2-digit zoned

And the binary / packed / zone versions could have 0 or more decimal positions.
All of them would have the exact same address passed to another routine, and
you'd have no way of determing which from the address itself.

Doug

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