RE: booleans
- Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Feb 05, 2001
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I treat all variable names as 'holders' of a sort. They dont actually hold anything untill you give them something to hold. If i understand you correctly, your looking for a method to check if the variable has been assigned a value yet within the program. For some reason or another, the syntax checker does this, but there isnt a user function to do this. That said, i would also say you might try initializing all your variables if you are in the habit of testing their state very often. A sequence would therefore be initialized with "" and an atom or integer with a 0 (numerical zero). Ive run into this kind of thing a lot too, and that got me into the habit of intializing a lot of my variables early on in the program with the null value for that kind of variable so that testing later doesnt produce a run time error in any case. For objects you will have to decide what to use as an intializer. Good luck with it. --Al