explicitvariables weirdness

Jerry Daniels jerry at daniels-mara.com
Tue Oct 24 10:03:56 EDT 2006


Mark,

Galaxy does not use the "Check by Default" pref setting that Rev  
Uses. Galaxy 1.5 has such a setting, but does not touch Rev's stuff.

Best,

Jerry Daniels

Makers of Galaxy 1.5
http://www.daniels-mara.com/new_in_galaxy_1_5.htm



On Oct 24, 2006, at 8:37 AM, Mark Swindell wrote:

> Thanks Andre and Malte.  Indeed the culprit was "check variables by  
> default."  I don't recall having checked it.  I was testing Galaxy  
> for a while in 2.6.1... seems unlikely but perhaps that had to do  
> with it?  At any rate... great list.  Much appreciated.
>
> Eric, I'll try to get into this habit if it's considered good form,  
> but since I already use the gGlobal convention, I can identify  
> local variables easily enough.  If there's no g in front, it's  
> local, and by context it's a variable, no?  Where does it become  
> problematic in interpreting undeclared locals?
>
> Mark
>
> On Oct 24, 2006, at 2:07 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I take the opportunity to say how useful is to set explicit  
>> variables to true.
>> It's not only good practice but will track for you misspellings  
>> and errors :-)
>>
>> When explicit variables are set to true, all local variables must  
>> be declared or a message as the one Mark reported will show up:
>>
>> on MyStuff
>>   local tData,tFlag
>>   -----
>>   put the optionKey is down into tFlag
>>   put fld "Data" into tData
>>
>> You get the idea.
>> In addition, for those who always work declaring all variables,  
>> it's a bit bothering to inspect other people scripts where they  
>> are not declared ;-)
>>
>> Le 24 oct. 06 à 06:50, Mark Swindell a écrit :
>>
>>> Over the past couple days I've been encountering a frustrating  
>>> behavior in that when I go to save a stack script, I'm greeted  
>>> with the following error message:
>>>
>>> Type	Chunk: can't create a variable with that name  
>>> (explicitVariables?)
>>> Object	FF Stack
>>> Line		put "multiplication addition division subtraction" into  
>>> theCardsToChange
>>> Hint		theCardsToChange
>
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