Another wish list item

[Mel Bishop]

Consider the following snippet:

Sub DoSomething         ' Applies to Functions as well

    Local Wheel as Long
    Incr Wheel
    ....Process
    ....Process

End Sub

Each time the program accesses this sub, "Wheel" gets reset to zero and would always have a value of one.

There are times when I don't want this to happen. The only way I know of to keep incrementing "Wheel" in this sub to declare it GLOBAL(ly) earlier in the program.

What I would like is to LOCAL(ly) declare a variable, as shown above but not reset it. It would apply exclusively to this procedure.

Maybe an example:

Sub DoSomething

    Local (wheel) as long   ' or tag something in the line to keep the current value.
    Incr Wheel
    ....Process
    ....Process

End Sub

This would go a long way to cleaning up the start of code and after the procedure is set, I don't have to worry about it any more.


BTW: I really LOVE the "Preview Post" button. Nice!

[Ian Webling]

Wish Granted

Look up STATIC in the help file.

[Cliff Nichols]

Static Wheel as Long

[Mel Bishop]

Well.....Okay....That seems to work. Hmmm.... Much Grass.

[John Gleason]

BTW: I really LOVE the "Preview Post" button. Nice!

You can say that two times

BTW: I really LOVE the "Preview Post" button. Nice!

(I previewed this, made 2 changes, previewed it again, then posted it. hehheh)

[Rodney Hicks]

Well.....Okay....That seems to work. Hmmm.... Much Grass.

(my bold)

What seems to work? Reading the manual or 'STATIC'? Both?

How did this thread get this far without ?

[John Gleason]

RTFM

Sometimes ya just don't make the connection, even if you did read the fine manual...twice. I think Eddie Awad said it well:
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1. Don’t use the acronym RTFM.
2. Do point people to the documentation.
3. Don’t blindly trust the documentation.
4. Do test, test and test, even after you read the documentation.
5. Don’t be afraid to ask dumb questions. What’s dumb to some, is genius to others.
Feel free to add your own DO or DON’T, or even ask dumb questions, I promise I won’t throw an RTFM on you
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I agree Edward. No RTFM's from me neither.