[AccessD] Pseudo Pointer to a Function

Hi Arther:

Yes there is. I have a friend, who is a bit of a guru in MS SQL and he built
an entire database system using, and don't quote me, the EVAL() statement to
use function names passed back and forth through the procedures. The whole
thing ran like a object database; even the function names were stored in
tables... very slick. I have a copy of the code but could not get it to work
as some of the external processes were "C" and definitely not my forte. I
will try and get you some more info when things quiet down.

Jim  

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:24 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Pseudo Pointer to a Function

Is there a way to pass the name of a function or procedure to another one?
The need for this might occur when the given procedure must branch in
various ways, and call a proc/function whose name depends upon the
code-path, as it were. Yes, one could write a CASE statement to deal with
this, and that is exactly what my current code does. But it set me to wonder
whether it's possible to pass the name of the function/procedure to call
rather than code the CASE statement.
A.
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