How on earth does this pass the syntax check?

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Tyler Cameron Style <cmaitson at telus.net> wrote:

> This is some old code I found in input processing. 
> I copied over the
> chunk you see here to a stand alone output
> processing table, and it
> STILL compiles. Can anyone tell me WHY?!?   I can't
> figure it out -
> line 27 should cause it to fail the syntax check.
[snip]
>        Then: dim desc[28](40)
>        Then: a=LISTBOX(desc,

Actually you only need these two lines to duplicate
the problem.  You are right, it passes the syntax
check for me too and it should not.  I also found that
dclerk will load it but it will not run it.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and
imports.



	
		
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