OPTIONS attribute

Indicates the options enabled that control the behavior of the ABL compiler. The default value is the empty string ("") or the options specified by the -compileroptionsfile startup parameter. See OPTIONS under the COMPILE statement entry for a complete list of possible values.

Data type: CHARACTER

Access: Readable/Writeable

Applies to: COMPILER system handle

The options are set and stored as a comma-separated list. For example, this code sets the options that require full field names and full keywords, respectively.

COMPILER:OPTIONS = "require-full-names,require-full-keywords".

The value of the OPTIONS attribute is overridden when OPTIONS or OPTIONS-FILE is specified for a COMPILE statement. If one or more options in the attribute are invalid, the attribute keeps the value it had before the attempted assignment.