Hi Lew
Message: 8 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:27:27 -0400 From: "Lew Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Macros format/style in old code To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain;charset="us-ascii"I'm cleaning up some old code and I keep coming across macros which are uniformly coded with quotation marks and dots. Eg if a macro is stored in a memvar, instead of seeing: &memvar The code consistently reads: "&memvar." All I can find out about this is that the programmer decided that using the quotation marks and dot all the time avoided problems. Anyone have any idea what problems are being addressed here, if any?
I regularly add the . to the end of a macro, just like I add a ) after a (. It helps me see two dots are needed with commands like this... lcObject = "test" store "something" to &lcObject..SomeProperty I've seen the "&memvar." format used when the memvar wasn't even an expression. That's better done as lcVar = memvar With memvar containing an expression... lcVar = "&memvar." but it's almost always better to lcVar = eval(memvar) Note that both parentheses are mandatory ;) _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
