Re: passing parameters longer than expected

My original post is the "right" way to make this change...

But you could get tricky...

You could change the PR/PI to
d MyProc
d parm 100a const option(*varsize)
d parmSize 10i const option(*nopass)

Then in the code
if %parms() < 2;
wSize = 45;
else;
wSize = parmSize;
endif;

wParm = %subst(parm:1:wSize);

I wouldn't recommend doing it this way, but hopefully it helps you get
a better understanding of parameter passing.

Charles

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You're correct in your belief that CONST is what is allowing this...

It's designed to allow you to do so when needed, which means it's your
responsibility to know you're doing it. :)

Changing the procedure is a bad idea....especially when there's a better way.

Basically
1) Rename existing procedure(MyProc --> MyProc_old) without changing PI
2) Move code to new MyProc with changed PI
3) MyProc_old simply calls MyProc
4) update binder language source, taking care to just rename the
existing MyProc line and adding a new one at the end and either leave
a hard coded signature alone or make use multiple ones with *PRV