>That's correct; I did this romthe command line. DIMENSION aPrivArray[2,3] is the intended code, and demonstrates the error properly.

Don't test scope declaration from the command line. First, any variable initialized from the command window is PUBLIC. Second, it's just not the same! :)

I still don't see the error. IMHO, my program proves that both private and public arrays can be passed by ref just fine. No errors and the expected values are there.

Vlad