Hi Dmitry

The easiest and fastest way to add a new piece of code to your project/exe is to add a .prg in a folder in your dev path. When you add a call to your function/procedure in the place where you need to call the function - you are only editing one place in your project. Fox will include the new prg into the project for you.

No wasted time finding the procedure library, checking out the entire thing, compiling the entire thing and checking the entire thing back in. No wasted attempts by an imperfect source code "tool" to knit your new procedure into the library. When that tool knits your code in - all the other team members will be wasting time re-downloading the entire library and re-compiling it. In fact, the only persons on the team that need to recompile that new prg is the one writing it and the one building the exe for testing, that is unless the new prg is something every other team member needs.

Inside that new prg, use lparameters.
SOMETHING.PRG
LPARAMETERS tcChar
RETURN something

That's only 2 lines of code.

There is no benefit whatsoever to using the procedure / function declarations (as below), except as a way to put usually completely unrelated functions/procedures into a procedure library and document it.

FUNCTION SOMETHING(tcChar as Integer)
RETURN something
ENDFUNC

If I ...

?SOMETHING()

tcChar gets a logical value, there isn't even an error message that no integer was passed as clearly required/expected. OK, so I can add an ASSERT. Have to do that without the FUNCTION declaration - so no intrinsic value in the function declaration and even worse a wasted extra line of code. ENDFUNC. Really? Who wants the Funk to end? Not James Brown!


>Hi,
>
>Specifically I mean, as far as the title, what is the purpose of the "L" in LPARAMETERS. I understand it means "local" but the following example shows that it is not quite local:
>
>

>LOCAL lVar1, lVar2
>
>STORE 1 TO  lVar1, lVar2
>
>=TestFunct( lVar1, @lVar2 )
>
>? lVar1, lVar2
>
>FUNCTION TestFunct
>LPARAMETERS lVar1, lVar2
>
>lVar2 = 122
>
>RETURN
>

>
>Or does it mean that the "@" overrides the L in LPARAMETERS?