Absolutely weirdest problem

Howard Wolowitz howiewz at beonthenet.com
Mon May 8 10:32:49 PDT 2006


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
> Quoting Howard Wolowitz (Mon, 8 May 2006 10:29:46 -0400):
> [...]
>> > You have a lookup named "user", which filePro is apparently not
>> > handling very well here.  (Well, it handles it "well" for everything
>> > except the part where it also enters a null-named user command in
>> > the symbol table, causing this very weird situation.)
> [...]
>> (I just tried making the same mistake on the same line of code but in a
>> different version of the table and it _did_ fail the syntax check.  Like
>> I said - weird.)
> [...]
> 
> Do you ever start a line with an assign to "user(something)" ?
> 
> FYI:
> 
>  Then:  user
>  Then:  xx=xx{
> 
You're right (so what else is new?).

When I introduced the error into a table that had:

Then:    user(xxx)=

It again passed the syntax check when it shouldn't.

Howie


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