Cr@p, now I forget the specific reason. I will need to rewind my mind and review the code to recall what I was attempting yesterday. It is early for me.

>Funny - was wondering the same thing a little while back for a development tool helper.
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>I don't think there is a to detect this however.
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>What do you need this for? Maybe there's another way to do what you need without specifically checking for a ref/value parm.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>Does anyone know of a way to determine if a variable has been passed to a function by reference or by value. This is a run-time question.
>>For example:
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>>local a
>>a='test'
>>=Test(@a)
>>=Test(a)
>>
>>procedure Text
>>lparameter b
>>*-- here, i would like to verify that the variable 'a' was passed to 'b' as by reference.
>>...
>>