Labels Conflict w/ filePro Commands

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:41:45AM -0500, Joe Chasan wrote:
> > Why am I interested in this?  I'm writing a Perl program
> > that does more than my AWK "ck.syn" program to check for
> > other than errors made by people using 'vi' to create or
> > edit processing tables.
> > 
> > It can find all sorts of name conflicts, not reported by
> > the dcabe syntax check, that night cause problems in the
> > processing at run time.
> > 
> > I want to know if this is a real or imagined problem.
> 
> not sure how far you want to go with this - but of course lookup aliases
> and declared variables can conflict with filepro commands.
> 
> i remember one time long ago i was writing an application for a trade 
> show supplier, and i aliased a lookup to their reference file of trade 
> shows as "show" - i must have stared at the table for hours trying to 
> figure out some wierd syntax errors i got when fp got confused.

This was running through my head, as well.  I believe that labels and
alias tags live in separate namespaces, and I *suspect* that alias tags
*will* conflict, even if labels don't -- and Bob?  Did you only test
the ability to *use* "reserved words" as labels (in field 1), or did
you also set some such labels to values, and try to *test* their values
(in field 2)?

Cheers,
-- jra
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