Forum Post: RE: Procedures and includes in xml-xref

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Well, short sighted design. Youssif explained that while the procedure is detected at the line where the word procedure occurs, in order to accumulate things like parameters, they need to keep it open. Ultimately, I don't suppose one knows that one has everything. While bizarre, I have tested that one can have additional parameters *after logic in the procedure, so one doesn't really know that one is done until one reaches the end. So, I can see how someone did this, but clearly they didn't think very much about how it would be used. Frankly, one of the key faults in the current design is the fixed properties that come under every reference, whether they make sense or not. If the properties were specific to the reference type, one could have used this sequence, but supplied an beginning and end line number.

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