7. Embedded QUEL for Pascal : Pascal Variables and Data Types : Variable and Type Declarations : The Inherit Attribute
 
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The Inherit Attribute
EQUEL/Pascal also comes with a Pascal environment file that has the same declarations in the compiled include file. By means of the VMS Pascal inherit attribute, you can use this environment file instead of issuing a declare statement. Compilation should be slightly faster with this technique. The syntax for inheriting the EQUEL runtime routines is:
##   [inherit('EQUEL')] program_heading;
##  [inherit('EQUEL')] program test( input, output );
##  var
##          msg : varying[100] of Char;
##  begin
##          forms
            msg := 'No DECLARE statement was issued';
##          message msg
##  end.
For information on installing the environment file, see Precompiling, Compiling, and Linking an EQUEL Program.