RE: Global variable across module and language boundaries?

IIRC, you can get really job-global variables in C, if they are defined outside 
of any procedures (external linkage, IIRC). Might be wrong there, however. But 
not in RPG - all variables are at most module-global, I think. Unless you use 
the EXPORT/IMPORT thing, already mentioned.

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Gary Monnier" <gary.monnier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

> So you don't like my suggestion. That is your prerogative. 
> 
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H H Lampert 
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 4:08 PM 
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion 
> 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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