On 09/04/2010 06:49 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Richmond-
Saturday, September 4, 2010, 2:03:06 AM, you wrote:
what I wanted to 'say' by
if fld "fXXX" and fld "fZZZ" is empty
was
if fld "fXXX" is empty and fld "fZZZ" is empty
Methinks the "bad" here is bad logic rather than bad grammar. What you
typed was a partial logical statement (akin to using a contraction
instead of writing out full words) and then expected the compiler to
fill in the details and extrapolate. The compiler, being a fair-minded
device, expanded your statement to what it knew deep in its heart you
really meant: as Mark pointed out, that would be
if fld "fXXX" is true and fld "fZZZ" is empty
which is proper logic and proper grammar.
Although not the logic you intended. If indeed you had typed out
either of
if fld "fXXX" is empty and fld "fZZZ" is empty
or (as Thierry has cleverly pointed out)
if (fld "fXXX"& fld "fZZZ") is empty
you would again have proper (and intended) logic and proper grammar.
...I'm stopping now before I start veering into the dangerous ground
of the syntax of statements like
if me is empty
I did contextualise a bit:
"but Morpheus was hard at work wrapping me in his coils, so it came out
the way it did;"
And having just spent 8 hours editing my way through about 50,000 lines
of code (or, put another way,
25 times 2080 line, each version of which has subtle changes) I
th......................ink..............z..........z..................z my
s-y-n-t-a-x izzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
way off:
on mouseUp
put Richmond into bed
end mouseUp
notwithstanding Morpheus, obviously the Lar of RunRev saved me . . . :)
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