John Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:18:47 GMT, Richard Kuhler <noone_at_nowhere.com>
> wrote:
>
>>As soon as I hit send, I realized my solution of course points at
>>another solution if you're willing to have a public global variable ...
>>
>>empty_numarray numarray;
>>procedure wrap (p_numbers in numarray := empty_numarray);
>>
>>I'm not sure I like this solution since anybody could screw with that
>>variable and change the default behavior of that procedure in their
>>session. However, that might actually be desirable in some situations.
>
>
> I ran into the same problem, with the same solution. To avoid
> problems from other code changing the variable, you could declare
> empty_numarray as a constant within the package.
I don't see how this will work. When you try to make it a constant,
it's going to require an initialization. That puts us right back to the
original problem as far as I can see. Namely, how do you write a value
declaration for an index by array?
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Richard Kuhler
Received on Fri Nov 21 2003 - 12:25:33 CST
