Re: passing parameters longer than expected

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

My original post is the "right" way to make this change...

But you could get tricky...

You could change the PR/PI to
d MyProc
d  parm              100a  const option(*varsize)
d  parmSize         10i   const option(*nopass)

Then in the code
if %parms() < 2;
  wSize = 45;
else;
  wSize = parmSize;
endif;

wParm = %subst(parm:1:wSize);

I wouldn't recommend doing it this way, but hopefully it helps you get
a better understanding of parameter passing.

Charles

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You're correct in your belief that CONST is what is allowing this...
>
> It's designed to allow you to do so when needed, which means it's your
> responsibility to know you're doing it. :)
>
> Changing the procedure is a bad idea....especially when there's a better way.
>
> Basically
> 1) Rename existing procedure(MyProc --> MyProc_old) without changing PI
> 2) Move code to new MyProc with changed PI
> 3) MyProc_old simply calls MyProc
> 4) update binder language source, taking care to just rename the
> existing MyProc line and adding a new one at the end and either leave
> a hard coded signature alone or make use multiple ones with *PRV