Sharing variables across internal procedueres.

[R P]

I have an internal procedure which gets called on some action.
Inside that I have a variable which holds some value.

Can we use this variable in another internal procedure.

I tried declaring the variable as new global shared, but it is not working.

 

[tamhas]

Declaring the variable in the enclosing program will allow you to use it in both places, but is sloppy programming. Much better to explicitly pass in any values needed by the outside program and to explicitly return any values needed later.

 

[jdpjamesp]

Also, anything "global" or "shared" is technical debt you will regret in the future.

 

[chrisds]

global and shared have their values. i used them for QAD applications where the global variables feeds to Crystal reports. example, i can create one crystal reports and use the global shared variable userid to find his/her location and the report filters automatically instead of creating few same reports and hard filter in Crystal

 

[jdpjamesp]

QAD = Technical Debt. I rest my case
But seriously, there are much better ways of achieving this with modern versions of Progress.

 

[tamhas]

Notably, object-oriented constructs.