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- From: eric@sejnet.sunet.se (Eric Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Re: NOVALUE (was: Blanks, REXX, and portability...)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.012449.1@sejnet.sunet.se>
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- Sender: news@sunic.sunet.se
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- Organization: SUNET, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <REXXLIST%92091210543821@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 01:24:49 GMT
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- In article <REXXLIST%92091210543821@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>, Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET> writes:
- > Wait, if you intended to have x have the value 123 but by mistake it was
- > undefined, then are you saying that just by lucky accident a.x WAS defined?
-
- No, he intended X to have the value 123, by mistake X was undefined, and A.X
- was defined because the stem had received a default value via assignment to
- 'A.', and he isn't the only one to have had that problem. As usual I don't
- agree with the choice made in the language definition, and as usual I'm not on
- the majority's side.
-
- Eric
-