Use of the word GLOBAL

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Use of the word GLOBAL

Forum: Open Discussion

Creator: Charles Berger

Created: 2006-04-04

Updated: 2013-03-31

Charles Berger - 2006-04-04

I am using PLDoc to document a set of PL/SQL packages I have developed and so far I am pleased with it save for one issue.

I have created a package named GLOBAL but attempting to process the package spec with PLDoc causes PLDoc to fail with a ParseException caused by the text "package global".

After digging around in the source code I believe this is caused by the fact that the word GLOBAL is included in the tokenImage array declared in the file PLSQLParserConstants.java.

I haven't yet had time to comment it out and rebuild PLDoc to verify this theory but I would be interested to understand why this word is included when it isn't a PL/SQL reserved word. Also, do you think my proposed solution is valid?

My GLOBAL package is used widely throughout my suite so renaming it would not be something I would like to have to do.

Thanks for your help.

Charles.

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- Albert Tumanov - 2006-04-05
  
  There is a GLOBAL TEMPORARY clause that can be in CREATE TABLE. These are "half-reserved" words in Oracle, and there are always much trouble with such.
  
  If you open a bug, I can post some solution that you could test.
  
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