[sqr-users] Re: Globals in Local Procedures

[Nathan Stratton Treadway <nathanst@ontko.com>]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:40:10PM -0800, Alexander, Steve wrote:
> I know I can refer to global variables within a local procedure by using
> #_var and $_var.  It also seems possible to refer to database columns as
> &_ALIAS.FIELD.  Is it possible to refer to arrays?

Actually, arrays are _always_ global -- so you just refer to them by
their name (with no "_") in either local or global contexts. 
(Unfortunately, this also means that you can't create a local array, so
there is no way to "protect" an array from use elsewhere in your
program....)

                                       Nathan


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