Thanks Mike - that's basically it.
Though in fact, it's even stranger than you said.
The dictionary says that if you set a constant in a script but outside
any handler, then it can be used in any handler within the script; and
that's exactly what it does do ...
<?livecode
constant K = "asdf"
command doit
constant K1 = "qwer"
put "inside" && K && K1 & "<br>"
end doit
doit
put "outside" && K && K1 & "<br>"
?>
produces
inside asdf qwer
outside K K1
And that's pretty reasonable for a script in a stack (where you don't
have "executable" statements outside any handler), but very unhelpful
for revserver, where it is very common to have executable code "in-line"
rather than in side a handler.
Oh well - I'll submit it as an enhancement request, and stop using
'constant' for now.
Thanks
-- Alex.
On 10/02/2012 15:48, Mike Bonner wrote:
e I think there was a thread on this that I read before.
If I recall correctly, setting a constant inside a handler works for THAT
handler. So if you have.
<?lc
command tryConst
constant k="inside handler"
put k
end tryConst
tryconst
"inside handler" will be displayed. But setting it outside of a handler
doesn't work.
If you have the following
<?lc
command showConst
constant k="inside handler"
put k
end showConst
constant k="OutsideHandler"
put k
showconst
put k
?>
You end up with kinsidehandlerk
Keith, yeah revserver supports put. Anything that is "put" without a
destination container ends up as part of the final page.
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Matthias Rebbe<
[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Alex,
Tried here with LiveCodeServer 5.0.2 and got the same result. :(
Regards,
Matthias
Am 10.02.2012 um 16:01 schrieb Alex Tweedly:
constant K = "asdf"
put K
If I put the above 2 lines in a script in a stack or in the IDE/msgbox,
I get (as expected) "asdf" output.
But if do the same thing in a revserver script (in my case, on-rev), I
get "K".
That seems wrong to me, and the dictionary for constant includes server
in its platform list.
Am I missing something ? Can someone else try it and see if I'm doing
something odd.
Thanks
-- Alex.
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