On 23/11/2022 14:51, François Van Emelen via Ql-Users wrote:
Op 22/11/2022 om 13:26 schreef pjwitte via Ql-Users:
Does anyone know whats going on here?
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Could this solve your problem?
100 ch = FOPEN("con"): CLS#ch
110 test ch, 25
120 print#ch,"hit a key to stop" :PAUSE#ch,-1
130 CLOSE#ch
140 :
150 DEFine PROCedure test(coucou, a)
160 PRINT#ch; coucou,a
180 END DEFine test
Only replaced 'ch' as first parameter with 'coucou'
tested in QD sbas/qd and ex the file
François Van Emelen
Thanks for playing, François,
But its not MY problem. It is A problem. I normally manage to work
around it these days, as I do numerous other little quirks and
"features".
It only became a problem for me 'tother day after I merged some some
well-tested library routines with a larger project, not realising that
some of my global variables happened to have the same name as the
parameters of some function (Duh!) Then I wasted a stressful hour and
a half trying to figure out why the program would just hang without
there being anything "wrong" with it. (It compiled with Qlib and the
Turbo parser did not report any relevant errors, etc.) I made some
changes and then I kept getting nonsense structural errors instead. In
other words a huge time waster; just the sort of thing to put people
off writing decent, modern programs in SBASIC for SMSQ/E!
That being said, I dont expect anyone to try to fix it! It takes some
skill and, more importantly, "being in the picture". Ie it takes time
to get into the thing, especially if it has been a while. And bug
hunting can be a dreadful, time consuming business even for the best.
At least by bringing it up here, where there still appears to be some
interest in SMSQ/E and QL software, people may be made aware and save
themselves some head/heartache.
Per
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