Evaluating opinions - FilePro Error Messages

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With neither thought nor caution, J. P. Radley blurted:
> Mark Luljak propounded (on Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:03:28PM -0400):
> | Confusious (Bob Stockler) say:
> | > 
> | > My Perl program "ck.table" (works on UNIX/Linux and Windows)
> | > checks 176 filePro commands (those 3-characters or longer) for
> | > conflict with declared long-name variables, array names and
> | > alias names assigned to real or dummy fields (those are the
> | > only names that mattered, according to my experiments).
> | 
> | I was reading this and wondered what would happen with the interpreter if
> | it saw:
> | 
> |      IF:  1 eq or
> | 
> | If 'or' is a dummy field, how would this react?  
> | 
> | Better still, given a dummy 'eq':
> | 
> |      IF:  1 eq or or 2 eq eq
> | 
> | Does fP protect itself against false interpretation of dummy fields as
> | logical operators?  I don't think I've ever had occasion to try fooling it.
> 
> It would do absolutely nothing, given that little parenthetical
> "3-characters or longer"...

You misunderstand.  I read Bob's statement, but he was referring to his
syntax checking program.  filePro, OTOH, has has 2-character dummy
variables for ages.

I was wondering what fP itself would do, not what Bob's program would do.

mark->
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