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Wep5622
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Did somebody already suggest to detect code where &-variables are being used before they're initialized?

The last couple of days I've been pulling my hair out (not literally) over autoprompt prompting for variables that did not appear to be actually missing, which is frequently caused by variables initialized after their first use...

Currently, I'm not aware of any tools within the product that can help find those.


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Waz
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&VAR..


I haven't see that, but as we have varied developers here, its always a possibility.

The difficulty is to find it.

I used to use &VAR...ext when parameterising a filename.

It will probably go into the issues category for review, not fixing.


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&-variables are being used before they're initialized



Great idea.

Bit difficult in our environment with common code and -INCLUDEs


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Waz
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created a .NET Core 2.0 console app written in C# I called SearchReplace


Nice,

I have been thinking of changing this utility to have it outside of WF, probably in Python, perhaps when I have spare time.


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CoolGuy
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created a .NET Core 2.0 console app written in C# I called SearchReplace


Nice,

I have been thinking of changing this utility to have it outside of WF, probably in Python, perhaps when I have spare time.


Nice! Good luck man!


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Francis Mariani
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Should I say it?

"If you use the GIU, you will have the most perfect report".

And

"I thought code was dead".


Francis


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Waz
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"If you use the GIU, you will have the most perfect report".


If you use Code, you get a more capable perfect report. Cool

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"I thought code was dead".


In my house Code is eternal......


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Francis Mariani
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"I thought code was dead".


In my house Code is eternal......


I should have been clearer:

"In the Information Builders Universe, I thought code was dead".


Francis


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CoolGuy
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Originally posted by Francis Mariani:

I should have been clearer:

"In the Information Builders Universe, I thought code was dead".


Francis,

It lives as long as us developers are willing to continue on in IBI products due to the existence of -HTMLFORM BEGIN/END blocks... LOL ...etc.


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