Re: Optional Parameters in Subproceedures

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Scott,

You wrote:
>In the OPTIONS(*NOPASS : *OMIT) case is there any reason you can't use
>the %parms and %addr together?

You can IF you do not specify CONST.  Not specifying CONST seriously
restricts the usefulness of the procedure so I generally always specify
CONST on input parameters.  The compiler will not let you take the address
of a CONST parameter so I use the CEETSTA function instead.

I should have mentioned this ability in my earlier note.  It is useful
when your procedure supports a string of optional output parameters much
like the RTNVAR support from CL commands.  For example:

C               CALLP   getStuff( key : value1 : *OMIT : value2 : *OMIT )

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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