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2. Re: [phix] puts error message

• Posted by petelomax Mar 19, 2021
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Indeed. In my (warped) head:

object z = "z\n" 
procedure p(object x, object y=z) 
    ?x -- x is a parameter here 
    puts(1,y) 
end procedure 
 
procedure main() 
    object z = "Z\n" 
    object a = 1 -- set argument a to 1 
    p(a) 
end procedure 
main() 

Somewhere between p(a,b) and p(x,y), my brain is quietly doing a p(x:=a) so they become Schrodinger's cat, both parameter and argument at the same time.
Worse, z is a Schrodinger's cat on steroids. It is both a parameter default and a default argument and neither, and behaves differently on Phix (prints "z") and
Euphoria (prints "Z")... genuinely implemented as a completely different thing in the two languages.

PS I will just note that Phix handles call_proc(routine_id("p"),{a}) with ease, but that's illegal on Euphoria.