[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: buffer object BUFFER-COPY(..., except-list) method raises no error for an invalid except fi

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This behavior is seen in 11.7.5 and earlier. Say there is no such field poney in the customer table: DEFINE TEMP-TABLE ttcustomer NO-UNDO LIKE customer. CREATE ttcustomer. FIND FIRST customer. BUFFER ttcustomer:BUFFER-COPY(BUFFER customer:HANDLE, "poney"). => raises no error at runtime. Pretty dangerous if the except-list has a typo (hardcoded or in a variable) On the other hand, with static programming we get this compile time error which is safer BUFFER-COPY customer EXCEPT poney TO ttcustomer ** Unknown Field or Variable name - poney. (201) 11.7 now offers a significant improvement with strict compilation warning and errorsd. Are there ideas to provide stricter checks at runtime to detect cases like this one, especially around the record buffer methods?

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