error in test contion

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Wed Oct 30 18:31:03 EDT 2013


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:

> On 30/10/2013 15:58, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>
>> Is there *anything* in the world (excepting microsoft) for which the NOT
>> operator does not precede other  other logicals?
>>
>>  Probably not - any more - but there certainly have been in  the past
> (and I bear the mental scars from dealing with them) :-)
> So I just like to make things easy for myself.


A lot to be said for that.

Wasn't the MS one processing the negative in the wrong order in Excel, or
some such


>
> causes the IDE to choke
>>
> So give up on it ....
>
> put (the prgVrsn of stack "mcp") <> progVersion into tMyTestValue
> if tMyTestValue then
>     ...
> end if


That was where it got truly maddening:  that logical caused the IDE to
choke in the same way!

I had

put ( the first test) OR (the second test) into myTest

if mytest then

and that crashed!

This never seems to happen while single-stepping, and doesn't seem to be a
problem in the standalones.

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Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
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