declare variable - bug or poor design?

[Kenneth Brody]

On 2/13/2013 5:26 PM, Joe Chasan wrote:
> consider the following line of code:
> declare local test_field(len(1),edit(1))
[...]
> BUT - if you do not save the processing table and retokenize, rclerk
> still has the old length/type (dclerk works).
[...]

As Ken Cole correctly pointed out, the field length/type is determined at 
compile time, not runtime.  (This is true for both dclerk and rclerk.  The 
difference is that dclerk compiles it when you load it, whereas rclerk uses 
the pre-compiled file from rcabe.)

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Kenneth Brody