Richard,
As per Steve's comments, the Icon language officially considered it a
feature that built-in functions could be
overridden in programs, although some of the later IPL code written by
Ralph got pretty defensive about not trusting the user to leave the
built-ins alone, for variables such as "type".
I believe "unicon -u -c char.icn" would give the same output char.u
for your char.icn but would have given you the warning message you
request in this message.
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Richard H. McCullough<r...@pioneerca.com> wrote:
> Example from char.icn in mKE.
> This "bug" didn't show up until I tried to use the Unicon "char" function.
>
> "icont -u -c char.icn" did not detect my missing declaration
> local char
> in
> procedure set_charnest(subject,charnest,nvtype)
> ...
> every char := ! charnest do {
> ...
> } # end every char
> end
> because "char" is a built-in Unicon function.
>
> It would be helpful if icont detected this kind of error.
>
> Dick McCullough
> http://mkrmke.org
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