@ud and @ub updated

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Wed Apr 11 14:16:17 PDT 2007


Quoting Bruce Easton (Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:58:32 -0400):

> Dennis Malen wrote Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:42 PM:
[...]
> > Can we conclude for everyone's benefit that in auto processing it
> > is not a good idea to write to a real field but it is OK to write
> > to a dummy field?????
>
> Yes, you can conclude that.  You are allowed to do it of course
> in auto prc, but you also should understand what results to
> expect when you do.

Note that the only reason this is allowed by filePro is that the
original versions of filePro didn't disallow it, and too many
people wrote (broken) code that depends on this (broken) ability.
Disallowing it would "break" the (already broken, but "working")
code that depends on this.

[...]

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