Re: Compile-time arrays

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Buck,

You wrote:
>  I interpret the manual as telling me that I must make tables, prerun-time
>arrays and compile-time arrays global; that is, defined outside of all the
>subprocedures.  So, I can certainly use any global item inside any
>subprocedure.  I probably misunderstood your question...

That's exactly what the manual means but you can get the effect of local
compile-time arrays by doing the following inside a procedure:

DName+++++++++++ETDsFrom+++To/L+++IDc.Keywords+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
D monthsDS        DS
D                               20    INZ('January')
D                               20    INZ('February')
D                               20    INZ('March')
D                               20    INZ('April')
D                               20    INZ('May')
D                               20    INZ('June')
D                               20    INZ('July')
D                               20    INZ('August')
D                               20    INZ('September')
D                               20    INZ('October')
D                               20    INZ('November')
D                               20    INZ('December')
D   mthName                     20    DIM(12) OVERLAY(monthsDS)

The fact that the array is probably full of static data means that it would
be better to allocate it once rather than on each procedure call so you
should specify STATIC or simply make the array global to the module anyway
thus completing the circle and leading us back to the starting position.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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