Not a bug -- you can't use "var" on the command line -- it's local to the script it is given in, and the command line is a single script unto itself.
Only use var within a larger script. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Eric Martz <[email protected]>wrote: > I find that the statement "var colorKeyIndex = 1" (given externally, > not inside any function) has no effect on the value of > "colorKeyIndex". I expected that I could do "var colorKeyIndex = 1", > externally, when I needed to reset its value. Is this expectation mistaken? > > The following dialog gives the results shown in Jmol application > 11.8.9 and 11.8.13: > > $ print colorKeyIndex > > $ var colorKeyIndex = 1 > $ print colorKeyIndex > > $ colorKeyIndex = 1 > $ print colorKeyIndex > 1 > $ colorKeyIndex = 321 > $ print colorKeyIndex > 321 > $ var colorKeyIndex = 1 > $ print colorKeyIndex > 321 > $ > > Is this a bug? > > Thanks, -Eric > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and > easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users > -- Robert M. Hanson Professor of Chemistry St. Olaf College 1520 St. Olaf Ave. Northfield, MN 55057 http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr phone: 507-786-3107 If nature does not answer first what we want, it is better to take what answer we get. -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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