Hides specified variables or arrays that were defined in a calling program from the current program. There are two versions of the syntax.

PRIVATE VarList

PRIVATE ALL[LIKE Skeleton | EXCEPT Skeleton]

Parameters

VarList

Specifies the variables or arrays to be declared private.

The single letters A through J and M are reserved and cannot be used as variable names.

ALL LIKE Skeleton

Causes PRIVATE to hide all variables and arrays whose names match Skeleton, which can contain the question mark (?) and asterisk (*) wildcards.

ALL EXCEPT Skeleton

Causes PRIVATE to hide all variables or arrays unless their names match Skeleton, which can contain the question mark (?) and asterisk (*) wildcards.

Remarks

Example

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*** Program example demonstrating PRIVATE *** SET TALK OFF val1 = 10 val2 = 15 DO down ? val1, val2 && Displays 10, 100 PROCEDURE down PRIVATE val1 val1 = 50 val2 = 100 ? ' Val1 Val2' ? val1, val2 && Displays 50, 100 RETURN

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