Evaluating opinions - FilePro Error Messages

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
[...]
> 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.

The usage here is unambiguous, and therefore not a problem.

This has been brought up before.  From my post on 29-Aug-2002:

>     if:  eq eq or or ne ne lt

Or, even better, from earlier that day:

>  of::of(10,.0):
>  and:::
>  gosub:::
>  goto:::
>  :gosub or and and not not goto:goto (of) of of,and,gosub,goto:

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