Q31882: DATA Statements Not Allowed in SUB or FUNCTION Procedures

Article: Q31882
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 4.00 4.00b 4.50
Operating System(s): MS-DOS
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | docerr B_BasicCom | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 21-DEC-1989

The DATA statement should be included in the list of statements
prohibited in procedure-level code on Page 50 of the following
manuals

1. "Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.0: Programming in BASIC: Selected Topics"

2. "Microsoft BASIC Compiler 6.0: Programming in BASIC: Selected
    Topics"

3.  Page 41 of the "Microsoft BASIC 7.0: Programmer's Guide"
    manual.

The DATA statement documentation on Page 135 in the BASIC language
reference manual correctly states that "DATA statements can only be
entered in the module-level code."

A module is defined as an individual source file, but "module level"
is a special term with a different meaning. The glossary on Page 350
of the "Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.0: Learning and Using QuickBASIC"
manual defines "module-level code" as follows:

   (Module-level code is defined as) program statements within any
   module that are outside a SUB or FUNCTION definition. Error- or
   event-handling code and declarative statements such as COMMON,
   DECLARE, and TYPE can appear only at the module level.

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