From: DriftWood Subject: Re: ProC Mystery Date: 2000/07/07 Message-ID: <8k4pqd$nmv$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 References: <8idgqt$qom$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8ig7jo$i2p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <0bugi8.ku.ln@320003300523-0001.dialin.t-online.de> X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 www-proxy-netcache (NetCache 4.1R1), 1.0 x68.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 138.1.134.153, 192.86.151.35 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Jul 07 14:34:53 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDdrift_wood Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) The precompiler doesn't understand or care about the SCOPING rules for the code itself. This is one (of several) precompiler directives that are scoped from point of declaration to EOF or the next point they are declared (when parsing through the source from top to bottom). Like you said -- read the docs :) -- -cheers DW -------------------------------------------------------------------- "It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. -William Shakespeare" Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.