Too bad -- the ability to declare cursors as LOCAL or PRIVATE would be convenient, I think.

>>So, is that a "local" cursor then? I guess what I'm asking about is what other effects there may be from declaring a cursor name as a local.
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>You're not declaring cursor name as LOCAL but creating a local variable with the same name as a cursor. As sidefeect you'll have local variable that isn't used in code and which next programmer could remove if you don't put appropriate comments.