Re: An interesting DIM gotcha

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Subject:	Re: An interesting DIM gotcha
From:	Norman Palardy <npalardy at great-white-software dot com>
Date:	Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:07:03 -0600
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On Aug 31, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Robert Woodhead wrote:

Quick quiz, campers.  What does the following statement do?

  DIM reg1,reg2,reg3 as new regEx

This behavior has been around for a long time

It's one reason why I NEVER use this sort of declaration and have
thus never had this problem

Well, the whole point is that this gotcha will bite each victimexactly

once.  That's why I think it ought to be a compile error.


But its not an error in any way shape or form

The syntax is perfectly correct it's just the result is NOT what youthink it is_______________________________________________

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