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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Clearing Stuff Up...

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iaretony
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Posted: 29th Jul 2003 00:26
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Could an expert please let me know if I'm right about this:

1) You cannot pass TYPE's to functions.
2) You cannot pass arrays to functions.
3) All arrays are globally scoped.

I hope the DBPro team is working on adding 1 && 2, this would increase geometrically my ability to write good, reusable DBPro code!

Tony
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IanM
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Posted: 29th Jul 2003 00:52
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1) Not true with update 5. You can now pass types (by value)
2) Correct currently.
3) Almost ... arrays created within functions are local unless you specify them global - and then they must already have been declared outside of the function.
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ifman1
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So what you're saying is that I can declare an array outside a function, use an array in a function and declare it as global and have the function update or alter the array?!? So in affect return an altered array? Or are all the changes to the array lost when the function exits? Heck, I'm going to go test this before you reply anyways....

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ifman1
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Oh yeah... Oh yeah... Can just totally alter a Globally defined UDT in a function and it is still changed when the function returns! Yeah!!!! Kick'n all that ass now!

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