Re: More D spec questions

Ah yes!  It's coming back!  I've tried that in the past, and then accidentally changed the case on the prototype.  The compiler didn't flag it (because it doesn't care!) but the reference never got resolved.  But really, that's no different than messing up the case inside the quotes, so I think I'll give it another shot.  I'd really prefer keeping the inner and outer worlds in sync.

On 2/7/2019 3:29 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:

On 2019-02-07 9:19 AM, Joe Pluta wrote:

Thanks for this, Barbara.   I almost always use EXTPGM (with no parameter) for my prototypes.  Pros and cons, obviously, but I with that syntax, wherever a prototype is used I know exactly which external program I'm calling (of course, in RDi you can get it from the hover, but sometimes you're in the green screen).  EXTPROC is a little harder because of case; I always get confused with that one.  I think there's a way to do it, but I never seem to get it right.

Do you use EXTPROC(*DCLCASE)? As long as you get the case correct when you define the prototype name (or the procedure name, if there is no prototype), you don't have to worry about re-spelling the EXTPROC parameter correctly.

dcl-pr Qp0lGetPathFromFileID extproc(*dclcase) ...
vs
dcl-pr Qp0lGetPathFromFileID extproc('Qp0lGetPathFromFileID') ...