I think this should generate a syntax error... whatdoeseveryoneelse think?

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bruce Easton (Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:00:32 -0500):
[...]
> >> Then, when you assign to field 9, which you *know* you just removed,
> >> it does not complain in any way. No syntax error.  Yes, I see thatthe
> >> fields are still actually there with the colons and all in the map...
> >> and they are visible on the F6 screen...
>
> to which Ken replied:
>
> > Yes.  You have simply made them zero length with no name.
>
> Here's where my curiosity gets the best of me.  If when a map is saved
> with a fewer number of visible fields (not with 0 size, but completely
> blanked lines), and the operator says yeah, shrink the file when
> restructuring, why in the world are those extra lines left in the map
> and therefore be considered assignable fields by processing? (The ones
> that are left with just colons.)
[...]

Because there is already data in the file, and filePro will not change
the field numbering in such a situation.  (That's the same reason that
you can't use F3/F4 to insert/delete fields from the existing part of
the map when there is data in the file.)

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