RE: [sqr-users] possible bug

["the dragon" <ceprn@hotmail.com>]

Kathy,

the command 'show leaving curr = |' $currency_cd '|'  should cause a compile 
error, because there is no command 'show ....  I should be getting some kind 
of error because it should be treating everything between the ticks as a 
literal string, yet it is executing the show...... oh, wait, I see what is 
happening, but I don't know why - it is treating the show statement within 
the #ifdef and the string outside as a concatination of just one string.  I 
would not have expected it to work that way because show is supposed to stop 
at the end of a line......  Hmmm, on further testing a quoted string on a 
line following a show with a quoted string will just concatenate the two 
strings together.  I just thought it would stop the show at the end of the 
line.

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clark 'the dragon' willis


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----Original Message Follows----

What do you think it should look like?

>From what I see, the output is correct for what you have.

-----Original Message-----

Hi all,

I think I found an sqr bug, but it doesn't cause anything to crash, when I
would have expected a compile erro at the least.  I fat-fingered the
following lines in a procedure:

#ifdef debugb
   show 'Exiting  GET THE RECORDS'
#endif

'show leaving curr = |' $currency_cd '|'       <----- look at first tick

end-procedure ! GET THE RECORDS

and in my log file it prints like this:

Exiting   GET THE RECORDSshow leaving curr = |USD|

weird, huh?  Can anyone explain this behavior?

clark 'the dragon' willis

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