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Re: (rant) Three kinds of languages

• Posted by petelomax Oct 25, 2017
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Heh. No surprises.... I just now found (and fixed) this one in Phix:

for i=1 to length(s) do 
    ?s[i] 
    exit 
end for 

gave index out of bounds when length(s) was zero [because the zero iterations jump was messed up].
Unfortunately I couldn't quite fully fix it - you now get an "invalid/unsupported construct" when the compiler cannot cope,
ie: when an unconditional jump occurs immediately before an end for (use a simple if rather than for construct, innit!).
Lest anyone start to panic, it is a pretty rare and rather silly thing to do, that I have obviously never seen or tried to do before.

I suppose, at least, that such major and embarrassing surprises are getting down towards about one a year now.

Pete