OpenEuphoria

Re: Oops

• Posted by Roderick Jackson <rjackson at CSIWEB.COM> Apr 08, 1999
• 460 views

I can't actually try "executing" your wif.e file, since I don't
have fileman.e.

But I do notice one thing right away... in your Encode() function,
you declare the variable Encoded to be of type WIF. But you then
immediately refer to:

   Encoded[WIF_PalRef]

before you've assigned any value to the variable! You're doing the
same thing in your UnEncode() function too. Declaring a variable
doesn't actually fill it in Euphoria... you still must put in some
valid data (in this case, an sequence that is a valid WIF type)
before you can use it. I sometimes declare a DEFAULT_type constant
with my built-in types; if a type requires a sequence of length 5,
I'll have:

   constant DEFAULT_MY_TYPE = {0,0,0,0,0}

and then assign the constant to variables of that type before
using them.

There may be more logic errors, but that was the most obvious one I
saw from just glancing at the code. I take it you're still using the
public domain version of Euphoria, or does the code crash before it
gets to those functions?


Rod Jackson

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Ok, now can anyone tell me why this program doesn't work.