VBC09370 — Expected procedure, not variable

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

A call statement names a variable or a constant of a module, 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 the procedure the statement is in is VBC09364 Expected Sub, Function, or Property instead. 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 of a module called.	`Public Count As Long` … `Count (1)`	Call the procedure meant, or assign the variable: `Count = 1`.
The same, named through its module.	`Globals.Count (1)`	The same.
A constant or an array of a module called.	`Public Const K As Long = 1` … `K (1)`	Use the value in an expression, as in `Debug.Print K`.
A variable of a module called with `Call`.	`Call Count`	Call the procedure meant.

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VBC09370 — Expected procedure, not variable

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