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Can I remove session from preSaveOceanScript Skill function?

ChristophK

I've code that registers a custom skill function with

envSetVal("asimenv.misc"  "preSaveOceanScript" 'string  "MyFunc")

MyFunc is defined to have session and fp as arguments. However, session is unused. Can I remove session argument? Or has MyFunc to obey a certain signature?

documentation is a bit vague as it write "use follwoing syntax" and not "procude must have exactly two arguments"

preSaveOceanScript

This procedure is executed before the ocean script is created, when the Save Ocean Script option is enabled. You can add your own customized code here. Use the following syntax to specify the SKILL functions/procedures:

MYfirstProc( session fp )

https://support.cadence.com/apex/techpubDocViewerPage?path=oceanref/oceanrefICADVM20.1/oceanrefTOC.html

Thanks for clarification.

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  • As is common with callback procedures where you just specify the function name, it must follow a well-defined signature. Otherwise how would the caller of the function know which arguments are expected? So you must define the function to accept two arguments.

    By convention, if you're not using the argument you can prefix it with an underscore:

    procedure(MyFunc(_session fp)
      fprintf(fp "; some additional comment\n")
    )

    The underscore doesn't alter anything about how the code works, but the convention is checked by SKILL Lint - so if you have an argument to a function that's unused within the function, SKILL Lint would normally flag this; if the argument is prefixed by an underscore then SKILL Lint won't complain about the argument being unused.

    Regards,

    Andrew

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  • As is common with callback procedures where you just specify the function name, it must follow a well-defined signature. Otherwise how would the caller of the function know which arguments are expected? So you must define the function to accept two arguments.

    By convention, if you're not using the argument you can prefix it with an underscore:

    procedure(MyFunc(_session fp)
      fprintf(fp "; some additional comment\n")
    )

    The underscore doesn't alter anything about how the code works, but the convention is checked by SKILL Lint - so if you have an argument to a function that's unused within the function, SKILL Lint would normally flag this; if the argument is prefixed by an underscore then SKILL Lint won't complain about the argument being unused.

    Regards,

    Andrew

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