RE: *NOPASS parameter retaining old value

The code works fine. What I don't understand is why ForceRead has a value. When I run in debug I would expect the evaluation of the ForceRead parameter to not be addressable because it wasn't passed. Instead it contains the value from an earlier call that did pass the parameter. Is it that once the parameter is passed the procedure retains that address in memory and therefore the value of that parameter?


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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dennis Lovelady
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:53 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the IBM i / System i'
Subject: RE: *NOPASS parameter retaining old value

If (PreviousBank <> Bank or PreviousLoan <> LoanNumber) or (%Parms

3 and ForceRead);

As Bruce mentions, that's the wrong way to use *NOPASS.

You need

if %parms() > 3;
wForceRead = ForceRead;
else;
wForceRead = *OFF;
endif;

Sorry, but I don't see any problem with the OP use of ForceRead. %Parms being less that 3 trumps the test for ForceRead (and the rest of the IF statement). Or doesn't it? Are we saying that %Parms is unreliable, or that the test order will not be followed? Both sound wrong to me.

Dennis Lovelady
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