FYI

I'm not trying to speak for Rick, but I do know that he is without electricity 
due to some serious 
snow this past weekend.

Lee

On 10/31/2011 2:14 PM, CVBruce wrote:
> I just want to add that when I tested the sample program, I got different 
> results than the author of the bug.  Consider that on Linux/Unix/MacOS that 
> the current directory is not automatically searched, unless it is in the 
> environment PATH variable.  Perhaps people that are used to Windows add the 
> current directory to PATH, but people that "grew up" on UNIX have been 
> trained not to do that for security reasons.
>
> In the sample program there are four calls to HEY.  My results under ooRexx 
> 4.0.1 were:
> Hello!
> Hello!
> ERROR HEY not found
> ERROR HEY not found
> This was due to direcories 'a' and 'b' not being in my PATH.
>
> While my results under ooRexx 4.2.0 were:
> Hello!
> Hello!
> Hello!
> Hello!
>
> My personal opinion is that ooRexx 4.2.0 is working as the documentation 
> indicates it should work.  Also, I think that the way it is documented to 
> work is the way I would like it to work, if I had a choice.
>
> The next question is, is there a workaround for the person who entered the 
> bug report.  Could the person alter the PATH in the environment to attain the 
> desired results?
>
> Bruce
> On Oct 31, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Chip Davis wrote:
>
>> Yes, but that was simply a bug report against 4.0.1 that was applied
>> to 4.1.0.  I found what looks like the original RFE to change the
>> behavior of 3.2.0 to always look in the caller's directory first.
>>
>> RFE1666636 seems to be the point at which ooRexx 'Call' routine lookup
>> diverges from IBM Object REXX, and Classic Rexx for that matter.
>>
>> THAT is where the the trail ends.  I can find no reference to that RFE
>> in any of the Tracker or Forums files.  It shows up in five postings
>> to the Oorexx-svn mailing list.  Those postings are nothing but SVN
>> update logs which include the line:
>>
>>   +  * 1666636 - Add source of caller to function search order.
>>
>> The earliest mention of 1666636 is as an RFE update 4087 to 3.2.0 on
>> 2009-02-06 03:11:42 +0000 (Fri, 06 Feb 2009).
>>
>> I can find no information on who submitted the RFE, the rationale
>> behind it, or any discussion of its merits, necessity, unintended
>> consequences, or anything else.  I have not gone so far as to checkout
>> the 3.2.0 source to see if there is any commentary in the code, and
>> frankly that shouldn't be necessary.
>>
>> -Chip-
>>
>> On 10/31/11 13:31 Uli Zinngrebe said:
>>> On Sunday 30 Oct 2011 05:54:21 Mark Miesfeld wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Mark Miesfeld<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Chip Davis<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's doubtful to me that the behavior changed between 4.0.1 and 4.1.0.
>>>>> But, he did attach a test program, so I'll give it a try.
>>>> Well, that was a surprise, the behavior did change between 4.0.1 and
>>>> 4.1.0.  I got this result under 4.0.1:
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are you aware of bug ID 2978925 ?
>>> (External search path: skips "same" takes "current" directory)
>>>
>>> Cheers, Uli
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