DECLARE (was Re: Filepro-list Digest, Vol 78, Issue 28)

[Kenneth Brody]

On 7/22/2010 4:20 PM, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
> On 7/22/2010 3:42 PM, Howard Wolowitz wrote:
>> On 7/22/2010 3:40 PM, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
>>> On 7/22/2010 3:09 PM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>>>> On 7/22/2010 2:45 PM, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>> Have you used Debug to go through it line by line?  Filepro won't
>>>>> recognize a declared variable until it hits the DECLARE command on a
>>>>> line.  If so then the logical conclusion is that it must have hit this
>>>>> variable before the DECLAREs you are looking at.  Debug will let
>>>>> you see
>>>>> if it ever happens before getting to line 14.
>>>> DECLARE generates no executable code, and need not be reached during
>>>> execution.
>>>>
>>> I distinctly remember doing some debugging last week and trying to get
>>> the value of a declared variable before debug hit the line where it was
>>> declared.  It gave me an error.  Once I stepped through past the Declare
>>> statement it gave me the value of the very same variable.

If you can duplicate that behavior, contact fpsupport.

>> You are wrong.  Dim (dimension) works that way but Declare doesn't
>
> It may be that I was looking at a DIMed variable.

DIM doesn't generate executable code, and need not be reached during execution.

[...]
> P.S.  I just gloated to my brother that I got an e-mail from Howard
> Wolowitz...We're both fans of The Big Bang Theory.

But, do you have an autographed Season 2 DVD box set?  (Along with a few Big 
Bang Theory luggage tags, for some reason.)

Or Bill Prady's e-mail address?  :-)

Our kids still act surprised at times when we remind them that we know the 
"real" Howard Wolowitz.

-- 
Kenneth Brody