<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16443"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks William.  Its not a for loop that I'm looking for, but rather a scope within which I have access to the sequence.  A typical case will be where I have two procedures within the scope that are recursive but also pass control to each other under certain conditions, and each of these procedures accesses the sequence.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Cheers,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Harry</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>