[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Comment on Use Initial with Object Variables

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"What's specified as initial value currently needs to be a constant, even for primitive type variables, " There are already exceptions to this. DATE type can use INITIAL TODAY, DATETIME and DATETIME-TZ can use INITIAL NOW. I would assume (but don't know for sure and can't verify) that those variants invoke the TODAY or NOW functions respectively at runtime when the variables get initialized. Adding similar behaviors for other types should be viable too.

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