Assignment of ARG_VAL in Informix 6.0 -Reply

Steve I have tested this on Solaris 2.4 and it exhibits the same behaviour. The l_date is null. Status on assignment is zero. I added an l_char which reads the word 'update' correctly. Is this behaviour a bug? Beats me. rgds -- -- Peter Tashkoff NZ Kiwifruit Project Consultant/DBA Marketing Board. Standard Disclaimers apply This posting may not be used by any commercial organisation to vilify another. >>> Steve Weet <steve@weet.demon.co.uk> 12/July/1996 12:29pm >>> Given the following code sample :- MAIN DEFINE l_date DATE LET l_date = ARG_VAL(1) END MAIN And the following command line :- fglgo progname "update" I would have expected an assignment error in much the same way as I know the following would error :- LET l_datevar = "SOMETIMES" So why doesn't the ARG_VAL asignment error. This "feature" caused a program to run in report only mode rather than update mode many times. Is this a bug/feature and is it limited to V6 4GL (AIX ) Any comments would be appreciated. Regards -- Steve Weet steve@weet.demon.co.uk Ensigndata Ltd Office: +44 01634 577054 Informix and Tetra consultancy Mobile: +44 0468 301927 and programming services