Does DELETE close a lookup?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 03:37:41PM -0700, fp at casabellagallery.com wrote:
> Jay wondered:
> > If I have a lookup open, and decide I want to DELETE the free record I
> > just allocated through it, will 
> > 
> > IF: tag
> > 
> > be false after that?  By definition, I mean; I'm sure I could test it,
> > but I'm equally sure that might not be authoritative, and the help file
> > doesn't seem to say, on either end.
> 
> Well, I did run a test using code:
> 
> 1    -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
> @key*  ? If:                                                                   ?
>        Then: lookup ref = asorderd  k=40   i=A -npx b="(brw=12 fill=asc)*1     >
> 2     -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>        ? If: not ref                                                           ?
>        Then: end                                                               ?
> 3    -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>        ? If:                                                                   ?
>        Then: delete ref                                                        ?
> 4    -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>        ? If: ref                                                               ?
>        Then: show "@Its there ..."                                             ?
> 
> and line 4 is TRUE every time.  

Well, I guess that proves that DELETE doesn't imply CLOSE.

I believe that to be a bug.  It's especially a bug if I can't CLOSE
*after* I delete: I'm going to have code working against that alias
tag, and I don't want it to blow up if I've had to delete the record
(which I won't always do...)

Thanks, Jose.

Cheers,
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