@ud and @ub updated

[Dennis Malen]

Bruce,

Based on your response to Ken, do you mean that I could have put my problem 
line in @entsel and that would have solved the problem???

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Easton" <bruce at stn.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 5:54 PM
Subject: RE: @ud and @ub updated


> Kenneth Brody Wednesday, April 11, 2007 5:16 PM:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>
> Ah yes, and who am I to argue, being the champion of backward
> compatibility that I am :).  And I suppose this explains the difference
> in the later-applied @entsel where real-fld writing is proteced.
> (Other than that difference and leaving out the auto table's way of
> communicating values globally to other tables, I always just considered
> @entsel as a duplicate of the first of the three runnings of automatic
> processing that occurs with a typical filepro update transaction.  And
> that it is in a more convenient place for comparing dummy fields and
> just code used elsewhere in input.  At least in terms of populating
> dummy fields on the screen.)
>
> Bruce
>
> Bruce Easton
> STN, Inc.
>
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