Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Getting Started:
Object-oriented Programming

Using compile-time arguments

Compile-time arguments are a mechanism to pass compile-time values to an external procedure file or an include file. This facility is not supported for classes but is supported by include files referenced by a class, as shown:

CLASS Test:     CONSTRUCTOR PUBLIC Test (INPUT in AS INTEGER):         {build-info.i &build-num=num &build-date=today}     END CONSTRUCTOR. END CLASS.

This is the contents of build-info.i:

MESSAGE {&build-num}         {&build-date}         VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX.