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RE: variable start values

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

Hi,
 Thanks for both replies...I understand clearly now, thank you.

Mike Sabal wrote:
> 
> 
> Jason,
>   By the time the function hits the return, there needs to be a value
> assigned to capital1.  If x[1][1] is less than 90, that happens.  But if
> not, there is no other place for the value to be assigned, so the
> program crashes.  You have to options to correct this: initialize
> capital1 or add an else statement to assign a value to capital1.  You
> could also remove the variable altogether and use multiple returns.
> 
> if x[1][1] < 90 then
>   -- do stuff
>   return 0
> else
>   return 1
> end if
> 
> HTH,
> Mike Sabal
> 
> >>> dubetyrant at hotmail.com 12/10/2003 11:42:20 AM >>>
> Jason Dube wrote:
> > 
> >  "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
> 
>