Re: Variable name oddity?

Author: Steve Ellenoff

Posted: 2011-02-22 at 14:26:21

Thanks guys.. I had a hazy recollection that it was related to work

areas when I posted it, but wanted to get full clarification.. :)

Luckily I never use single letter vars in real code, but I was being

lazy about testing out some class code methods in the class' prg

itself, and I got busted.. LOL!

-Steve

At 02:16 PM 02/22/2011, you wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Steve Ellenoff <sellenoff@pinmame.com> wrote:

> > I'm sure someone has a rational explanation for this odd behavior??

>

>By Design <s>.

>

> > If I run the following code it fails with a syntax error on the

> > method call, but if I use the variable x or y, for example it works

> > just fine as expected. Other vars that failed were a,b,c,d,f.

> > I didn't try any other than those..

>

>Single letters are assumed to be aliases for work areas a through j.

>Don't use them as objects. For that matter, don't use them as work

>areas, either, aliases are much better ways to refer to tables and

>cursors.

>

>--

>Ted Roche

>Ted Roche & Associates, LLC

>http://www.tedroche.com

>

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