>>I was getting an error and I sensed that the reason was the extra parameter I added. You confirmed it.
I hesitate to mention performance after some recent threads(!) but passing lots of/large parameters definitely carries a performance hit. The other option is PRIVATE variables or parameter objects in the calling code: you can have as many as you need that are visible to called functions without the performance impact.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
