Evaluating opinions - FilePro Error Messages

[George Simon]

But "not" cannot be used as an alias in a lookup because
If: not not

*** A filePro Error Has Occurred ***

Line Number: 4

not not
      ^
Process contains a syntax error at position indicated.

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 12:33 PM
To: Fairlight
Cc: Fplist (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Evaluating opinions - FilePro Error Messages

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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