RE: Global variable across module and language boundaries?

So you don't like my suggestion.  That is your prerogative.

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Subject: Re: Global variable across module and language boundaries?


"Gary Monnier" wrote:
> Easy as pie.  Use a user space.   Just obtain a pointer 
> to the space. When you change the space in one program it
> is also changed in the other.

That hardly qualifies as "easy as pie," and in the 
situation at hand (i.e., one module telling another 
whether or not it's already copied a work-file into QTEMP) 
it amounts to using a bazooka to swat a fly.

And I said IN AN ILE PROGRAM, ACROSS MODULE AND LANGUAGE 
BOUNDARIES, not across PROGRAM boundaries or across JOB 
boundaries. Something like a "common block" in Fortran. Or 
declaring a Java variable as "public static" (or even just 
"public").

Sorry if I seem a bit irritable.

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JHHL