Which is exactly why I stay away from using the "New" syntax in DIM
statements! I explicitly New my (reference) variables instead.
On Aug 31, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Robert Woodhead wrote:
Quick quiz, campers. What does the following statement do?
DIM reg1,reg2,reg3 as new regEx
If you said "create three regEx objects", BZZZT! Wrong! It
creates one regEx object, and points all three variables at it!
Checking the manual, there is no mention of this minefield (which
of course, blew my foot off today). Checking the feedback, I find:
http://www.realsoftware.com/feedback/viewreport.php?reportid=iyhptsui
wherein another amputee, some years back, complained of being
maimed, and was told it's the proper behavior. Note the request
for documentation, which was also ignored.
Well, it may be "proper" (though I would argue that 99.44% of the
time, the intent of the programmer is going to be to
create 3 objects), but it's not expected. And worse, it's a bitch
to figure out what is actually going on.
I personally would lobby that the above construction be a compile
error - the argument being that it's ambiguous.
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