answer the result

Trevor DeVore lists at mangomultimedia.com
Mon Apr 10 10:43:38 EDT 2006


On Apr 10, 2006, at 6:53 AM, Dave Cragg wrote:
>
> Could someone confirm that they see the same thing (i.e. a blank  
> message) in case it's just at my end. This was with Rev 2.6 and 2.7  
> (XP and OS X).
>
> This used to work ( I just checked with Rev 2.1.2).
>
> I know we shouldn't rely on the result staying around for long, and  
> I generally store the result in a variable immediately. But I  
> thought "if the result is not empty then answer the result" was a  
> fairly common method. (LibUrl documentation uses it all over the  
> place.)

Dave,

I've noticed this behavior in recent versions as well (OS X/ 
Windows).  I've resorted to using

get the result
answer it

Though that isn't how things used to work.


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Trevor DeVore
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