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Re: explain it to me

• Posted by "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> Aug 29, 2001
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Brian, doesn't value() return { x , y }, where x is the success variable and
y is the actual value?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Broker" <bkb at cnw.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: explain it to me


>
> 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
> >
> >
>
>