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-----Original Message-----
From: WalterPachl via Oorexx-users <oorexx-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, May 9, 2025 11:53
To: Open Object Rexx Users <oorexx-users@lists.sourceforge.net>; Glenn
Knickerbocker <n...@bestweb.net>
Cc: WalterPachl <pa...@chello.at>
Subject: Re: [Oorexx-users] Detecting invalid dates
With Use Arg Strict you can default the missing arguments!?!
Regards
Walter
> Glenn Knickerbocker <n...@bestweb.net> hat am 09.05.2025 17:14 CEST
> geschrieben:
>
>
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:36:10 -0400, Rick McGuire wrote:
> >::routine checkDate
> > use arg date
> > signal on syntax
> > d = date('s', date, 's')
> > return .true
> > syntax: return .false
>
> I'd want to make this more general with:
>
> Use Arg date, format, sep
>
> But it's a pain when a function cares whether an argument is omitted vs.
> blank or null. For a method, you can stick the arguments in an array
> and use FORWARD, but for a function it takes enumerating all the
> different call formats:
>
> If Arg(1, 'E') Then
> If Arg(2, 'E') Then
> If Arg(3, 'E') Then
> Call Date , date, format, , sep
> Else
> Call Date , date, format
> Else
> If Arg(3, 'E') Then
> Call Date , date, , , sep
> Else
> Call Date , date
> Else
> Raise Syntax 40.5 Array('DATE', 2) /* missing argument 2 */
>
> My assumption here is that it wouldn't be useful to return 1 when no
> args at all were provided, even though DATE() would happily return the
> current date. I suppose there could be an argument for allowing that,
> so you can validate the full argument list before calling DATE. Since
> the error is this same missing argument 2 when a format or separator
> is provided without a date, no need to fill in the whole decision tree:
>
> Else
> If Arg(2, 'E') | Arg(3, 'E') Then
> Raise Syntax 40.5 Array('DATE', 2) /* missing argument 2 */
> /* Else Nop -- no arguments at all, we're fine */
>
> Or I suppose if you want a trace to show the successful result, you
> could go ahead and make the call with no arguments:
>
> Else
> If Arg(2, 'E') | Arg(3, 'E') Then
> Raise Syntax 40.5 Array('DATE', 2) /* missing argument 2 */
> Else Call Date
>
> ¬R
>
>
>
>
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