R182 – It is good programming practice to give an EXTERNAL variable an initial value – blanks are allowed (WMB)

It is good programming practice to give an EXTERNAL variable an initial value – blanks are allowed (WMB)

This can both aide in readability and also can affect performance, as per IBM Best Practices.

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DECLARE some_useful_var EXTERNAL CHARACTER;