[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Comment on Enhance compiling skills of the Developer Studio concerning procedure parameters

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"The main problem is that the procedure being called can be an internal procedure, and external .p, a procedure in a super procedure... And those just can't be evaluated at compile time." --> Then there should be a strict option or annotations or something to declare that it is a procedure call to somewhere outside of your project. It's unbelievable that you can completely change procedure parameters inside your own project (which is the main thing you're doing) and everything around it still compiles. "The run-time also does "conversion on the fly" wherein if it can convert from the source datatype to the target datatype - it will. This has been in the language forever and will never be removed." --> Which is stupid af. There should be a strict option as well to prevent that.

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