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Re: type checking ?

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at b?ueyon?er.co.uk> Nov 23, 2007
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Bernie Ryan wrote:
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> > A user of Bernie's application must supply a couple of include files.
> > 
> > global constant WhatEver = "some text"
> 
>    Thanks for explaining it.
>    That is exactly what I mean.
>    How can you be sure that a user enters the token WhatEver which
>    represents a string constant and not the string "WhatEver"

Is the missing bit the way that constant is defined?
What if you did something similar to this:

global constant Whatever = fixedText("some text")

where fixedText just appended to allFixedText and returned the index, then useit
could be:

procedure useit(object txt)
   if atom(txt) then
      txt = allFixedText[txt]
   else
      if find(txt,allFixedText) then ?9/0 end if
   end if
end procedure

A smarter solution would be that useit always expects an integer idx param.

Regards,
Pete