Help, what am I doing wrong??? --resolution BZ

[Dennis Brown]

Ok folks,

I BZ'd this issue for the Rev team to take note of.  If you want to  
second this, you can send a vote it's way.
Thanks to all for the discussion and helping me understand the problem.

Dennis
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http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=3036

            Summary: Repeat for each errors in IDE
            Product: Revolution
            Version: 2.6
           Platform: All
         OS/Version: All
             Status: UNCONFIRMED
           Severity: enhancement
           Priority: P2
          Component: Script compiler
         AssignedTo: engineteam at runrev.com
         ReportedBy: see3d at writeme.com
          QAContact: enginebugs at lists.runrev.com


The repeat for each construct behaves in a way that trips up just  
about everyone
eventually and can be very hard to debug.  If the labelVariable is  
modified inside
the loop, the data from the container is somehow trashed also.  To  
make matters
worse, when steping through the script in the debugger, the data from  
the container
is not trashed, and the loop works perfectly.  So the code "reads"  
right, and in
the debugger works right, but under normal operation, it does not  
work.  This can
be very frustrating to debug.

I propose that since the labelVariable must be treated as a read only  
quantity
inside the loop (for any useful script), that an error message be  
generated by the
script compiler when an attempt to modify the labelVariable is  
detected.  If this
is too hard, then fix the runtime package so that the contents of the  
labelVariable
can be modified without messing up the next repeat value.

Dennis

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On Jul 31, 2005, at 2:15 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> Dennis-
>
> Saturday, July 30, 2005, 7:24:58 PM, you wrote:
>
> DB> I would really like to get a real error message since it does  
> not do
> DB> what you expect from reading the code.  How many newbies do we  
> have
> DB> to trip up before we erect a stop sign at that intersection?
>
> DB> Should I BZ it?
>
> I'm not sure it's actually a bug, but it's worth BZing just to keep it
> on the rev team's radar, since it's a stumbling block that everyone
> runs across at some time or other.
>
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
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