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- From: merlin@maths.tcd.ie (Merlin Hughes)
- Subject: Re: RISC OS 3.10
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.150847.17491@maths.tcd.ie>
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- References: <1992Sep5.185031.23487@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1992Sep6.095131.3855@cl.cam.ac.uk> <1992Sep6.230410.4489@cs.nott.ac.uk> <Bu6LxC.HC7@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1992Sep8.012242.17735@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 15:08:47 GMT
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- jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) writes:
-
- >I don't know if there has been an update since v1.05, but this had several
- >improvements over the 1.04 in RISC OS 2.00. [...]
-
- If the RISC OS 3.10 basic is unimproved, I'll be incredibly
- annoyed. How many people have come across the problem where
- *Basic -quit <filename> (ie double-click on a basic program)
- doesn't in fact clear the variable space. This has the
- delightful result that you can write code that accesses
- variables that don't exist. Basic can find them somewhere
- (with of course, totally screwy values), and your code will
- run with garbage variables, and quite possibly crash (machine
- code).
-
- The only way to avoid this is to load and run the program
- directly from basic, or to (as we have) set up Alt-click
- on basic programs to *Basic -chain <filename>.
-
- Blee.
-
- Merlin.
-