Any response to my DECLARE question

[Jeff Harrison]

Ken Brody wrote:
> 
> Jeff Harrison wrote:
> [...]
> > 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.
> [...]
> 
> Why not just DECLARE it without any length or type, as in:
> 
>    DECLARE myvar
> 

Yes, that would save me 7 characters, but in the example that I sited the
processing table could also be used as a "call" table, and therefore would
need the extern key word added.

Jeff Harrison
jeff.harrison at epixweb.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport - The fastest and easiest ways to generate
code for filepro exports and imports.  Demos available upon request.