Watch out for 2.6 then going back to 2.5

[Dennis Brown]

Richard,Sarah,Mark,Jon

I found the problem and my face is a bit red.  It was not stack  
corruption, it was a caused by a typo that caused a missing global  
declaration.  The error just by coincidence happened to occur during  
the few hours I was trying to run on 2.6.  I had so many reverts  
during that time, I must have messed up an edit.  The reason I was so  
confused, was that when I hit debug in the error window, it showed me  
the line, but the variable watcher was in a different context which  
had the global listed but did not have j listed.  Typing into the  
message box used the variable watcher context.  I am usually pretty  
good with debugging problems (even though I am still new with Rev)  
but I was led astray by what I thought the tool was showing me.   
However, in trying to duplicate the context error now, I can't.  It  
does the right thing.  So now I am wondering if it was somehow  
operator error.  I usually figure operator error, but this time I may  
have been too quick to blame 2.6 because I ran into so many other  
problems so quickly when I tried using it --blame the one with the  
long rap sheet that was in the vicinity.  I will not likely repeat  
this mistake.

Thank you for the help.
I am sorry to have caused you any inconvenience.
My apologies to 2.6 for being accused of a crime it did not commit.
Thank goodness I can recover from this.

Dennis



On Jun 9, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Dennis Brown wrote:
>
>> I could use some help.  I am not sure how to approach trying to   
>> recover my stack.  I have lots of backups, but I have to go back  
>> many  revisions to find a stack the does not produce this error  
>> (prior to  my brief encounter with 2.6).
>>
>
> If the Rev IDE is not reporting corruption, it may not be corrupted  
> at all. Your original report said:
>
>    repeat with j=1 to 20
>       put j --mssg box contains 1
>       get Typ[min(i+1+j,DateLines)] --error on this line
>
>
>              executing at 11:59:32 AM
>     Type    Function: error in source expression
>     Object    card id 1002
>     Line    get Typ[min(i+1+j,DateLines)]
>     Hint    card id 1002
>
>     The error is complaining that j has not been defined yet!!!!
>
>
> I don't see "j" mentioned specifically in the error report, just  
> "source expression".  So if "j" is okay and "1" is one and not an  
> undefined lower-case "L", what's in "i" and "DateLines"?
>
> If those check out, what happens if you delete and retype that  
> line?  It may be that there's an option-space or other illegal non- 
> printing character accidently put in there....
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
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