At 15:56 2014-09-05, Dan Covill <[email protected]> wrote:
Gene,
I should just let this drop, but you make too easy a target!
> Languages that make it too easy to make errors are not correct
> in my eyes.
A syntactic error is mathematically provable, and thus a
fact. Whether it was easy is an opinion.
You added the word "syntactic". Indeed, those can be rather
easy to find if using a compiler.
OTOH, run-time errors can be real bears.
> I believe I was using it with 6. I have been using that
> pattern for a long time.
No, you weren't. From the VFP9 Help:
In earlier versions of Visual FoxPro, you cannot place && and a
comment after the semicolon that is used to continue a command line
to an additional line.
Well, I know I was using it well before I was using 9. I went
from 6 to 9. Maybe, I was using something undocumented or unintended.
You really SHOULD read the specs before yelling BUG! (Not that it
isn't a common failing. In 50+ years of programming, probably 2/3
of the 'bugs' I've found have been errors on my part.)
Oh, sure. Those exist, too. I have made my share of them,
too, but I have also seen bad specs.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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