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Status Not under consideration
Categories EGL Language
Created by Guest
Created on May 14, 2013

Better way to copy records without having connections between them

As described in PMR#50724,211,788, there is a problem with passing array variables to functions. Even when these variables are copied to another record, there is still a link with the original array until this array is initialized. Thanks to Mark Hall we have a workaround: cleaning the just copied array.
The way it should work:
when records are copied; there should be no connection to the original record.
See attachment for example project.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Business Developer

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Business Developer

  • Guest
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    Jun 24, 2013

    The customer can use "move aArray to bArray" to do deep copy the arrays inside a record. With the solution, the customer can copy the full record which meets his requirements, he does n't think the REF is still required.

  • Guest
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    May 14, 2013

    Attachment (Description): example project