RE: MODS in subprocedures

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 16:31:20 -0400
>From: "Phil" <sublime78ska@yahoo.com>
>
>I know if I define the pointer outside of the subprocedure that it will
work
>and I understand why (I understood that before but somehow didn't see what
I
>did wrong).  I now understand also that if I define the pointer as static
>that I can define it within the subprocedure.
>
>What I am working on understanding now is the merits between passing the
>pointer to the subprocedure versus returning the pointer to the calling
>subprocedure.  For that matter, what are the merits of using a return
>argument at all?

Phil, maybe it was just a slip of the fingers, but it's not the pointer
that has to be static.  It's what the pointer is pointing to.

Barbara Morris


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