RE: callb ==> callp -- RPG400-L

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Subject: RE: callb ==> callp
From: "Phil" <sublime78ska@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:14:16 -0400
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Thanks, Scott.  It's the value keyword.  Things got so confusing I couldn't
see the forest for the trees.

Phil

>
> Only data that's passed by reference can be changed by the
> procedure/program that you call.  If you pass it by value, then anything
> that is done to that variable in the called proc/pgm won't affect the
> caller's copy.    If it is passed as a constant, you won't be allowed to
> change it at all.
>


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