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RE: variable start values

• Posted by Jason Dube <dubetyrant at hotmail.com> Dec 10, 2003
• 502 views

Well ok,

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I went back and tested it 
several times without the var initializing and it generated the correct 
error message. The point is, sometimes it doesn't. I am assuming that I 
have to initialize every variable, but I have had euphoria for every 
year and this happens occassionally(like today)


Jason Dube wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
>  Im writing a simple punctuation checker, I get the following message
> when I try to execute this:
> 
>  "capital1 has not been assigned a value"
> 
> function check_for_punc_1(object x)
>   boolean capital1
>   if x[1][1] < 90 then
>     position(2,1)
>     puts(1,"GARBLE: [Sentence is not capitalized...]")
>     capital1=0
>   end if
>     return capital1
> end function
>   
> Do I have to initialize it first?
> Because I have noticed that at other times, with similar things, I dont 
> have to initialize...
> For instance, if I go back to my function and add this line:
> 
> function check_for_punc_1(object x)
>   boolean capital1
>   capital1=1
>   if x[1][1] < 90 then
>     position(2,1)
>     puts(1,"GARBLE: [Sentence is not capitalized...]")
>     capital1=0
>   end if
>     return capital1
> end function
> 
> The program will run fine...
> Then I can actually go back and DELETE that line, and it will still run 
> fine. I can save the program and run it as many times as I want
> and it will run fine without that initialization.
> 
> Almost like the interpreter remembers when I initialized it...
> 
> Am I making sense? What is going on? I would just as soon NOT initialize 
> 
> the variable if my routine is going to set the value later.
> But the question is:do I have to or not?
>