The permalink address for that entry has changed (so much for the perma part of that name!).

It’s now: http://robertbaillie.blogspot.com/2005/08/named-notation-parameters-in-easy-to.html

What if you cannot or do not want to change how you call the procedure. At work, I have one procedure that is called by 20 others. I do not have access to the other 20 calling procedures and they do not use named notation in their calls. Now I want to add a new IN parameter to the called procedure. What shall I do? That’s what I’m trying to solve here.

_What do you mean by that?_

Sorry, I was not clear. I meant I always avoid standalone procedures and functions. I always create my procedures and functions inside packages. [Here](http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/05-may/o35plsql.html) is a good article by Steven Feuerstein about this subject.

scott@Robert> create or replace procedure test_proc
2 (param1\_in in number, param2\_in in number := 1, param2\_out out varchar2)
3 as
4 begin
5 param2\_out := ‘done’;
6 end;
7 /

scott@Robert> declare
2 value\_out varchar2(20);
3 begin
4 test\_proc (param1\_in => 1, param2\_out => value\_out);
5 dbms\_output.put_line(value\_out);
6 end;
7 /
done

“Normally, I do not create procedures. I always use packages.”

What do you mean by that? You create packages with stored procedures inside them?