RE: Returning values with a procedure -- MIDRANGE-L

Kurt,

Rather than limit yourself like that, ever considered simply wrapping a non-compatible procedures you
need in PHP, EGL, or VARPG in a compatible procedure that calls the original?

Charles Wilt
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kurt Anderson
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 12:07 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Returning values with a procedure

Note: If you ever intend to have exported procedures with return
variables that will be accessed by PHP, EGL, VARPG, or any other
language that will access the procedure via the API (can't think of it
off the top of my head) - you will be limited to a return value of 10i
0. Because of this we generally return values as parameters. (Also due
to this, we can't use Options(*Nopass), my favorite parameter passing
option... unavailable to me.)

Oh, and another limitation with this API is you can only have 7
parameters (of course a data structure parameter gets around this).

Kurt Anderson
Application Developer
Highsmith Inc

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam Glauser
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:27 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Returning values with a procedure

Booth Martin wrote:

Here is an example of
what I'd like to do:

c eval Duty = CanadianDuty(parm1: parm2: parm3)

and the procedure CanadianDuty would have 3 parameters as input and
return the value of the duty.

I believe I can do that process, but I *know* I have no idea how to do

the same thing where I need to return 2 values, say "Duty" and
"Tariff".

One way to do it is to return a data structure, so your code would look
like:

c eval CustomsFees = CanadianDuty(parm1: parm2:
parm3)
...
c eval totalCost = ... + CustomsFees.duty +
CustomsFees.tariff ...

You can also use "output" parameters, as you might if you were coding a
program instead of a procedure to retrieve the information:

c callp CanadianDuty(parm1: parm2: parm3: duty :
tariff)

Yet another way would be have one procedure for each type of fee, which
would be closer to your first example:

c eval Duty = CanadianDuty(parm1: parm2: parm3)
c eval Tariff = CanadianTariff(parm1: parm2:
parm3)
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