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Mike posted:

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> 
>      Yes, I can confirm that it occurs on fP 5.0.5K2R4 ddefine running on
> SCO Open Server 5.0.6 and 5.0.7.  If I put the line "bz(10,miketest)" a few
> lines down in the table, after I defined a few other variables, I get the
> dummy variables displaying properly up until I hit the "miketest" edit.
> After that, the variables stop displaying in the dummy variables display
> screen.
> 
>      Interesting!   Of course, I've never misused or misspelled an edit, so
> I never would have caught that problem... <grin>  
> 

I do at times misspell edit names, words ... you name it.  If it's written
I have misspelled it at one time or another.

The way I found this was months ago when I needed a new edit which I tough
of while writing the code.  I did not think fp will care and it would let 
me save my program. Later, will go on and define my edit, and all will be
well ...  Of course, needless to say that it was the same day I found that
a table will NOT tokenize nor even check syntax if I used an invalid edit 
(in my mind, it was not invalid, it simply was not defined) - I know, that 
makes it invalid.

It was not misspelling nor misuse, I simply did not know these two things.
Kind of like the chicken and the egg ... Is the code the chicken or the egg?


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