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Re: Where's the syntax error? No stringst that only contain numbers? [message #50281 is a reply to message #50210]

Tue, 19 September 2006 15:00

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:58:20 +0200, Fï¿½LDY Lajos wrote:

>
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, JD Smith wrote:
>
>> IDL> a= "18
>> IDL> help,a
>> A INT = 1
>
>
> GDL> help, "18
> % Parser syntax error: unexpected token: 8
>
>
> FL> help, "18
> ^
> % Error: syntax error (syntax error)
>
>
> should we fix it? :-)

Not in my opinion. It's such a rare usage case, and some things
should be dropped even if it costs some minor amount of compatibility.
On a similar note, I think "()" as array subscript could also be
dropped.

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		Where's the syntax error? No stringst that only contain numbers? By: Ingo von Borstel on Mon, 18 September 2006 09:49
		Re: Where's the syntax error? No stringst that only contain numbers? By: JD Smith on Tue, 19 September 2006 15:00
		Re: Where's the syntax error? No stringst that only contain numbers? By: Foldy Lajos on Tue, 19 September 2006 11:58

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