Re: Can a SubProcedure know the name of a variable passed to it ?

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>]

Hi, John:

Try to explain the rationale for what you are trying to do and why (from 
the application's point of view.)

Then perhaps we can offer some meaningful suggestions?

Thanks,

Mark S. Waterbury

> Voris, John wrote:
> > 	I am building a Subprocedure that would be nice to know if one
> > of the argument passed to it was the variable named
> > 	IsBlank or the variable was named IsNotBlank.
> >
> > 	I don't know how I can differentiate the two in the SubProcedure
> > unless IsBlank is not just a boolean, but actually a structure that is
> > composed of a boolean followed by a text field that carries the name
> > with it, so that it can be interrogated.
> > 	D IsBlank DS
> > 	D Boolean		N Inz(*On)
> > 	D Text			10 Inz('IsBlank')
> >
> > 	I suppose there is the other way, which is to make IsBlank not a
> > value but a Subprocedure IsBlank() and then use Procptr to decipher
> > the name.
> >