VBC09364 — Expected Sub, Function, or Property

Severity: Error · Family: VBC (static semantics / abstract syntax tree) · Source metadata: VBCompileErrorInfo

A call statement names a variable or a constant of the procedure it is in, not a procedure.

A call statement invokes a procedure, with Call or without: what it names is a Sub, a Function or a Property - not a variable, whatever it holds. A variable or a constant of a module is VBC09370 Expected procedure, not variable instead. Without Call, a variable that holds an object is not this error: the statement calls the object's default member.

MS-VBA reports the same error, with the same message (recorded in Excel).

This code is raised where the statements of a procedure are checked, at the name the Call statement is written with.

How it is raised

Situation	Example	Resolution
A variable called.	`Dim x As Long` … `Call x`	Call the procedure meant, or remove the `Call` statement.
A variable called without `Call`, or written alone.	`Dim x As Long` … `x (1)`, `x`	Call the procedure meant, or assign the variable: `x = 1`.
A variable that hides a procedure of the same name.	`Dim p As LongPtr` in a module with a `Sub P` … `P (1)`	Rename the variable: in the procedure that declares it, its name is the variable's.
A constant, a parameter, an array, a `Variant` or a record called.	`Const c As Long = 1` … `c (1)`	Use the value in an expression.

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VBC09364 — Expected Sub, Function, or Property

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