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For Best Practices, it’s preferable to explicitly declare the procedure as
Public, Private, or Friend to avoid any confusion. See Use Narrow Variable
Scoping on page 166.
Static
A static procedure preserves its local variables between procedure calls.
Select this check box to add the Static keyword to your procedure
definition. Make sure you understand the implications of making the
procedure static before selecting this option— you may want to consider
using static variables instead of static procedures.
Procedure Type
Specify whether the procedure is a “Sub” or “Function”:
For functions, you can specify the data type for the return value. Checking
the Return Value option adds a line in your function with the procedure
name and a default value based on the Return Type.
Options
There are two additional options:
Comments
Select this to add your comment structure into the new procedure. The
Comments are customized under Standards, Commenting, New Proc tab
(see page 35). Through the use of Tokens, you can include your procedure
name, current date/time, developer initials, etc. into your comment.
Body Only
There may be cases where you only want the Procedure Builder to generate
the body of the new code, and not include the procedure declaration or the
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