What have I done?

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Mon Sep 27 12:11:27 EDT 2010


James-

Monday, September 27, 2010, 9:01:54 AM, you wrote:

> Rev 4.0 is in revolt. (LiveCode is fine.)

> I write in  script:

>     put 3 into x

> and when I try to compile I get a message "Can't create a variable by
> that name."

You have turned on the explicitVariables failsafe mechanism, which
ensures that you can't accidentally get yourself into trouble. Try one
of these two things:

local x
put 3 into x

or

open Rev's preferences, select "Script Editor" and deselect "strict
compilation mode"

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net




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