Any response to my DECLARE question

[John Esak]

>
> Well, you don't TOTALLY disagree with me - I did say that I was
> not sure :-)
>

:-)

> You mentioned that the purpose of declare extern is to tell filePro that
> there is a variable in existence on another table that will be
> calling this one... While that will usually be true, it does not have to
 > be.  You could
> take advantage this feature as a way of using long variable names without
> explicitly casting them.  I have actually done this on occasion.

interesting... :-)

>
> BTW - I was saying that filePro should be consistent in its
> handling of the
> errors between dummy fields and long variable names - If a reference to an
> uncast aa on the if line gives an error then a reference to an
> un-cast aaaaa
> should also give an error.  However, I just discovered that a reference to
> an uncast aa will not necessarily give an error if you just mention them
> field somewhere on the then line in your table.  For example:


True but it isn't being assigned to some other field... that is the rub.

Thanks,

John