Re: Local variable acting static in 4GL report

In article <19970203234900.SAA27723@ladder01.news.aol.com> thillick@aol.com (Thillick) writes: >This is still the handsdown best report tool I've ever seen for a >professional programmer. I wish Informix would do some updating and at >least make 4GL usable with ODBC etc. Yes! I've done some totally disgusting things with the report code and it hasn't broken. One time, I just had a giant CASE block in the ON EVERY ROW clause that used module globals to decide everything (don't ask why!). Another time, I just wanted to use the BEFORE GROUP...AFTER GROUP stuff, so I ran a report then had function calls & cursors in the clauses. Never did ouput anything (except a couple bytes to /dev/null) from this report. From what John L has said, the inside is not pretty - and I do remember FORTRAN arithmetic IF branches. Unfortunately. But it does work. Peter Wiley