Re: the word 'static'

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From everything I've seen, Indicators are Static and Global, if you want
to think of them in those terms.

Incidentally, Static has nothing to do with whether a variable is local
or not.  Although most Static variables are local, they are two different
definitions, indicators being the perfect example, being static and global.

I've always considered Indicators to be contained in a spot in memory for
each job, and there is only one indicator memory area for that entire job.
So anything that changes an indicator is seen job wide.  Global would pretty
much describe it.  

Regards,

Jim Langston

Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!

Buck Calabro wrote:
> 
> >Indicators are static by definition.
> 
> Don't you mean "global?"
> 
> I always thought that "static" meant that the subprocedure has local storage
> for the variable; storage that is untouched by any other parts of the
> program and is not re-initialised each time the procedure is called.  They
> live only in THAT procedure and survive across CALLP boundaries.
> 
> Global variables also survive across CALLP boundaries, but that's because no
> subprocedure owns them.  Any line of code can manipulate them, subprocedure
> or mainline.
> 
> Response indicators (like CF03 03 'Exit') are global and live until the next
> READ operation sets them.  This doesn't change with subprocedures because
> there's no way to define a local version of an indicator.
> 
> Buck
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