Re: Circular dependency found defining a name like another name

Ummm... Is this your process you are creating new?  Maybe I'm missing
something... but why can't you pass the dir string to the procedure as a
parameter instead of doing a like and inz to dir.

Circular refence is a common error found in Excel.  You would get that
error when you tried to sum an array of cells but you accidently included
the cell that has the SUM function.  I've never seen this error message in
RPG before, so I am far from the expert (which is always the case), but it
sounds similar to what I've seen in Excel.

Maybe someone can answer again why you "shouldn't" define the parameter as
(*VARSIZE).  Or at the very least, look in the archives as to the pros and
cons of doing it.

Michael Schutte



                                                                           
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I'm getting compile error "Circular dependency found defining a name
like another name" when try to compile below.  I can't make any sense
out of this error.  *** Note: This error went away if I remove the
inz(dir) on D spec of myNewDir .

D dir             s          10240    varying
D processRequest  pr

C                   eval      *inlr = *on

 *******************************************************
 * process request
P processRequest  B
D                 pi

D myNewDir        s                   like(dir) inz(dir)
D myNeedRefresh   s               n

C                   return

P processRequest  E


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