Unfortunatly, faking them with some C functions would be very complex because in this application's case most of this variables are record types and some are arrays (pl/tables)... :-(
For record types, why not just use cursors? They can be made to persist until the end of the session. For arrays, it shouldn't be too terribly difficult to extent the code to handle them.
Joe
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