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RE: if statement not working

• Posted by bensler at mail.com Mar 21, 2002
• 462 views

Good point.

I have never found the need to use compare, so I was thinking in a 
narrower spectrum when I mentioned ==.

I see two benefits to the current syntax.

1. comparing equal length sequences (does the entire structure of the 
sequence need to match, or just the length?)

2. to visually define the difference between a numeric compare, and an 
object compare.

See: "justifying compare" posted by David Cuny in 1998

Chris

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> This, in my not so humble opinion, is one of RDS's lesser decisions.
> 
> For some reason, not quiet explained yet, RDS decided that sequences 
> must not allowed to be compared 
> using the normal comparision operators. For sequences you are forced 
> into calling a function to 
> compare them. The two main functions are 'compare()' and 'equal()'.
> 
>   compare(s1,s2) returns one of three values:
>     -1  if s1 is less than s2
>      0  if s1 equals s2
>      1  if s1 is greater than s2
> 
>   equal(s1,s2) returns one of two values:
>      0 if s1 is not equal to s2
>      1 if s1 is equal to s2
> 
> Go figure! Many people have been try to get RDS to see sense in using 
> the standard comparision 
> operators with sequences but to no avail yet.
> 
> -------
> Derek.
> 
> 22/03/2002 11:04:33 AM, xxmyt at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> >
> >hello everyone. 
> >
> >the code i pasted down works properly. however, it doesnt work in the 
> >second way.
> >
> >my code:
> >include dos32lib.e
> >without warning
> >
> >constant
> >    Win     = create( Window, "PASSWORD REQUIRED", 0, Default, Default, 
> >400, 200, 0 ),
> >
> >    Sle1    = create( EditText, "", Win, 10, 40, 120, 20, 0 ),
> >    Button1 = create( PushButton, "OK", Win, 180, 40, 120, 20, 0 )
> >
> >
> >procedure onClick_Button1()
> >
> >     if  equal(getText(Sle1),"YES") then
> >         closeWindow(Win)
> >     end if
> >
> >end procedure
> >
> >onClick[Button1] = routine_id("onClick_Button1")
> >
> >WinMain( Win )
> >
> >  but if i change the if statement this way, i get an error message:
> >
> >     if  getText(Sle1) = "YES" then
> >         closeWindow(Win)
> >     end if
> >
> >error message says, the result of the if statemnt should be an atom. 
> >
> >so whats it all about?
> >
> >
> ---------
> Cheers,
> Derek Parnell 
> ICQ# 7647806
> 
>