Commented by: Alice F. Bird (firebirds)

Date: 2006-01-17 14:27
Sender: dimitr
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This is called user-defined procedures. Or you may just call
UDF without using its return value.

Commented by: Umberto Masotti (umasotti)

Which real problem this want to solve? I don't see.

Syntax for declaring UDF in IB6.0 is
DECLARE EXTERNAL FUNCTION name [ datatype | CSTRING (int)
[ , datatype | CSTRING (int) ...] ]
RETURNS { datatype [ BY VALUE ] | CSTRING (int) } [ FREE_IT ]
ENTRY_POINT 'entryname'
MODULE_NAME 'modulename';

and would be changed in
DECLARE EXTERNAL FUNCTION name [ datatype | CSTRING (int)
[ , datatype | CSTRING (int) ...] ]
[ RETURNS {datatype [ BY VALUE ] | CSTRING (int)} [ FREE_IT ] ]
ENTRY_POINT 'entryname'
MODULE_NAME 'modulename';

Also
ALTER EXTERNAL FUNCTION (Fb 2.0)
need to support it.

Or add a completely new (?)
DECLARE EXTERNAL PROCEDURE name [ datatype | CSTRING (int)
[ , datatype | CSTRING (int) ...] ]
ENTRY_POINT 'entryname'
MODULE_NAME 'modulename';
with its
ALTER EXTERNAL PROCEDURE

Does this worth while?