On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 5:37 PM Terry Fuller <t...@pgmguild.com> wrote:
> Hi René & all, > > To be clear, I am instantiating an object but I haven't gotten an error > doing so... I was just reading the doc to understand how to do this and I > found the sample case to be odd. > > For example if I were to write a line like: > > -1~errno > > I would expect something like -1 does not understand the message errno. > The if statement in the doc seemed to be identical to that case (if s=-1 > then ... s~errno...). > > So, the socket is instantiated even if it's value is set to -1? > > > On 2021-07-12 12:45, René Jansen wrote: > > Hi Terry, > > just for my understanding of what you mean: you instantiated an object, > which’ particular purpose was to open a tcp socket. The fact that this did > go wrong, does not mean you cannot send the object a message of ‘let me > know the error code of what happened when you tried to open the socket’. > You are not sending anything over the socket (it is most prpbably not > there) - you are communicating with your object. > > Or seems something else wrong? > > best regards, > > René. > > On 12 Jul 2021, at 21:34, Terry Fuller <t...@pgmguild.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm working my way thru a project that makes use of rxsockets. in > > *ooRexx Documentation 5.0.0 * > *Open Object Rexx RxSock TCP/IP Socket Functions Reference* > * Edition 1 * > > i found: > > -- get a new socket > s = .socket~new() > if s = -1 then do > say 'Error' s~errno() 'creating server socket' > return > end > > > but... if s is -1, sending a message to it to extract an error message > number seems wrong; at least to me. Am I missing something? > > I suspect this was a bad conversion of the docs from the OS/2 function based version into the object based version. This probably should be "if s~error = -1 then do" Rick > -- > taf > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing > listOorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > > -- > taf > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >
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