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- From: bobcook@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Bob Cook)
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- Subject: Re: NOVALUE (was: Blanks, REXX, and portability...)
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 02:01:30 GMT
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- Dave Gomberg writes
- >On Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:18:34 GMT Bob Cook said:
- >>That is exactly the point that I'm commenting upon. I have been bitten by
- >>introducing a hard-to-find bug because a reference to "a.x", where x was
- meant
- >>to be a variable, instead treated the x as a constant because the variable x
- >>had (mistakenly) never had a value assigned.
- >
- >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?
- >That streches my credulity some.
-
- Would your credulity shrink back to normal if the code started with
- "a. = whatever"?
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