Re: Strange compiling behaviour in r4gl.

It is not desirable behaviour -- so it is a bug of some sort. However, the code I tested shows the correct diagnostic behaviour. The i4gl menu environment worked quite happily too. MAIN DEFINE v CHAR(20) DISPLAY v BY NAME |___________________^ | | A grammatical error has been found on line 5, character 21. | The construct is not understandable in its context. | See error number -4373. END MAIN This is on a Sparc 10 running Solaris 2.4 with 4.12.UE1. It is almost certainly a platform specific bug. Or it requires more context to trigger the problem. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> }From: gaukur@rhi.hi.is (Kristjan Gaukur Kristjansson) }Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 11:10:26 +0000 }X-Informix-List-Id: <news.18488> } }A bug report: } }A 4gl beginner was writing his first program and then compiling it. }Using the r4gl environment he chose Compile:Runable; then he got the }message 'Press Return to continue' and the env. did not continue to }the Save-and-exit menu or Correct errors. } }By accident he later found the 'program'.err file and then started to think }that this wasn't quite normal. So we started to debug and found that he }had used quite a lot of display commands with the 'by name' clause; but }used it thus that it was 'display var-name by name'. } }This syntax error made the compiler tumble and die without completing the }.err file and the environment giving 'Press Return to contineu' without }any notification of errors. } }Is this a known behavior? } }Using Informix-4gl version 4.12.UE1 } }Regards, } }-- }Kristjan Gaukur Kristjansson }gaukur@rhi.hi.is