Re: Bug notices?

>From: Jack Parker <jparker@hpbs2561.boi.hp.com> >Subject: Re: Bug notices? >Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 14:51:00 MDT >X-Informix-List-Id: <list.2965> > >Andrew Burt (aburt@du.edu) said: >> In my continuing quest to find responsive support from vendors :-) I'd >> like to propose that Informix post bug lists to this group. E.g., I >> just added another one to my trophy wall (#20562, wherein a 'return' in >> 4gl report function causes the _next_ call to be silently skipped, >> dropping that next row from the table- beware). As a developer, I'd See my previous comments about not using RETURN in a report. In fact, it may yet get outlawed**. And the GOTO alternative I saw suggested is equally ill-advised. >> like a weekly summary of bugs found (& workarounds known). Informixlink >> is a tad too costly for my tastes, and even so, I suspect there's a >> large segment of users who read this group and have no use for >> informixlink... Any thoughts? >Yes, look at the number (20562) what do you want to bet it's a serial? >That's a lot of traffic - a lot of which isn't going to mean anything to a >lot of people. I would prefer that they maintain a list of customers and >their packages - and mail the bugs of interest to those parties. Yes, it's a serial. Yes, there's a lot of traffic. I just checked and the current highest bug number is 21036 (at 1993-10-18 16:00 PST). Most of those bugs are in internal development versions, not in field versions. You wouldn't really want to have to wade through that list of bugs, I assure you. At the very least, you'd only want to know about bugs in field versions of the product. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> ** Actually, it probably won't get outlawed -- it'd break too much code. But it might well be documented that using RETURN in a report can screw up aggregates, line number counts, page headers, page trailers, and general report logic, not to mention the next row, and is generally about as unreliable a construct as you can get. The more I look at what a RETURN can do, the less I like them.