>Procedure call:
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>DO blabla
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>function call
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>blabla()
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>if you define
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>PROCEDURE blabla
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>or
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>FUNCTION blabla
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>does not mean a bit
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I know that - but that was only used to show the short-circuiting
And both functions return true in this case
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>>>This is way a function should just do it's job (return a value) rather then having side effects like
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>>>change of Parameters
>>>Output
>>>....
>>>
>>>VFP's style to mix up function and procedure (determination by the way to
call instead of definition) makes this very unclear.
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>>
>>??
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>>>Lutz
>>>
>>>>In one of my apps I just found and fixed a subtle edge-case bug caused by short-circuiting of logical operators. With my coding style I'm not usually vulnerable to it so it was interesting to be reminded of this feature of VFP.
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>>>>LOCAL ;
>>>> llFlag
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>>>>llFlag = .F.
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>>>>CLEAR
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>>>>IF MyUDF( "First Argument" ) AND llFlag
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>>>>ENDIF
>>>>
>>>>IF llFlag AND MyUDF( "Second Argument" )
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>>>>ENDIF
>>>>
>>>>RETURN
>>>>
>>>>FUNCTION MyUDF ( tcArgumentPosition AS String )
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>>>>?"MyUDF( ) called when it is " + tcArgumentPosition
>>>>
>>>>ENDFUNC
>>>>
Gregory