SWPadnnos is correct. The only "work around" is to use a numbered o-word.
Adding string variables would be considerable effort for relatively little payback. Ken Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > Alan Condit wrote: > > >> I think that I may have found a bug in the interpreter (at the very >> least a problem). >> >> This call works to call (indirect) o600 from within o<CallSubSub> >> o<CallSubSub> call [600] [-0.1161] [-0.0062] >> However, if you change to named o-words, then this call reports a bad >> number format (since it is not a number but the name of the >> subroutine to be called). >> o<CallSubSub> call [<CutOutside>] [-0.1161] [-0.0062] >> >> Is this a bug? Is there a work around at the moment? >> >> >> > This isn't a bug, and there is no workaround as far as I know. > > The issue is that variables are numbers, not text strings. You can > indirectly call a numbered subroutine because the variable is converted > into a number before the call is made, and the interpreter expects a > number for a subroutine call (names were only added in the last year or > two). > > The only way to make this work the way I'm thinking you want it to work > is to add the ability for variables to contain strings. This would be a > nice feature, but I'm not sure how hard it is to add. > > - Steve > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Kenneth Lerman Mark Kenny Products Company, LLC 55 Main Street Newtown, CT 06470 888-ISO-SEVO 203-426-7166 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
