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RE: explain it to me

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Aug 29, 2001
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George,

I can only assume that you are declaring the variable rec as an object 
in your example, otherise you would get an error at: 

  rec = value( rec )

because now rec is holding the atom 123.45

Now that rec is an atom, there is no such thing as rec[2].

I'm not sure what you are trying to get so let me take a stab at it.

Are you trying to get rec to hold an atom with a value of 2?

If so, try:

rec = value( rec[2] )

-- Brian


George Walters wrote:
> Could someone explain why I can't reassign a sequence like this
> 
>    rec = "123.45"
> 
>    rec = value(rec)
>    rec = rec[2]            -- why can't I redefine rec this way if I don't
>                                             want the 1st element (or any
> others but the 2nd). It's awfully
>                                             inconvinent  to have to go
> through a temp var
>                                             everytime.
> 
> And I would have thought that the following syntax would have also been
> allowed
> 
>     rec = value(rec)[2]        -- this is valid in Theos Basic and seems
> logical to me here also. It saves going through a temp var also.
> 
> ...george
> 
>