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Error fuzzy logic

 [1/3] from: ptretter::charter::net at: 26-Aug-2001 8:10


Anyone ever have problems with the error? logic checking. The following for example: ------------------------------------------------------------- if connected? [ if error? error: try [send [ptretter--charter--net] read %log.txt][error: disarm error] ] ------------------------------------------------------------- my fix to the problem at this point was to build a function for this process - here is the complete section of code: forever [ wait 60 rtime: now/time if rtime > (ctime + 1:00) [ ctime: now/time if connected? [if error? error: does [try [send [paul--tretter--charter--net] read %log.txt]][ error: disarm error save %errorlog.txt mold error ] ] ] ] Just curious if anyone knows whether there actually is a bug with the Try function or if its an error with the Error? logic! datatype. The second example when putting 'Try into a function appears to work. The other one did but would crash often giving the message that "error has no value". Paul Tretter

 [2/3] from: fsievert:uos at: 26-Aug-2001 15:34


> ------------------------------------------------------------- > > if connected? [ > if error? error: try [send [ptretter--charter--net] read %log.txt][error: disarm error] > ] > > -------------------------------------------------------------
The problem ist not the "error?", but the "error:" Send will, when it does not fail, return "null" and this causes the "needs a value" problem when trying to set the word "error:". The sollution: if error? set/any 'error: try [....] set/any allowes to set null to values, too. An other sollution would be: if error? error: try [.... none] Your example looks not like it will send the email. Because you are producing a function and check it, if it is an error. This is not true, because function! <> error! . So you will not run the if-body

 [3/3] from: john:thousand-hills at: 26-Aug-2001 8:52


Paul: I have noticed that there is a difference in most of the logical functions including IF and EITHER than one might be used to. I simply consider any options until I make it work -then I write my own FUNCTION that makes sense to me. You might call that an error, I'm impressed with the logic of writing my own functions -it works for me. The answer is in testing the code as you go. John At 08:10 AM 8/26/2001 -0500, you wrote: