Evaluating opinions - FilePro Error Messages

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Sat Jun 5 08:27:45 PDT 2004


"Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 07:39:32PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > George Simon wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > "not" is a perfectly valid label.  You just can't test its state.
> 
> I'm sorry, but: "ick!"

I didn't say it was something you would _want_ to use, just that you
_could_ use it.  Just as you can use "return" as a label of a subroutine,
and call it with "gosub return".

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