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merlin@maths.tcd.ie (Merlin Hughes) writes :

>If the RISC OS 3.10 basic is unimproved, I'll be incredibly
>annoyed. How many people have come across the problem where
>*Basic -quit <filename> (ie double-click on a basic program)
>doesn't in fact clear the variable space. This has the
>delightful result that you can write code that accesses
>variables that don't exist. Basic can find them somewhere
>(with of course, totally screwy values), and your code will
>run with garbage variables, and quite possibly crash (machine
>code).

Aha ! And I thought I was crazy. I have come across this so many
times that I thought I was slipping away from reality. All those
silly crashes on unknown variables that magically got some erratic
value anyway... And Roger denied that it could exist ! (Sorry Rog,
you did, several times !)

>Blee.

Bleargh. Fix it ! It has cost me hours and hours of useless hair-
tearing (while I could have been nail-biting !).


John Kortink

Student of Informatics at the University of Twente, The Netherlands
NETMAIL : kortink@cs.utwente.nl              DISCLAIMER : the usual

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 I have been'                            - Suzanne Vega, 'Cracking'