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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Weird compiler bug with constants

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Ratty Rat
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Posted: 13th Dec 2002 18:36
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Try this :-

#CONSTANT maxlaser 3
TEXT 10, 10, "max " + STR$(maxlaser)
wait key

Then try this :-

#CONSTANT maxlaser 3 : rem jjjj
TEXT 10, 70, "max " + STR$(maxlaser)
wait key

On my system the addition of the comment after the constant definition causes an irregular brackets error on the text line, pretty odd little bug!
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MrTAToad
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Posted: 13th Dec 2002 18:42
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Very odd - obviously the parser hasn't been set up to check comments on #constant lines...

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Kale
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Posted: 13th Dec 2002 19:27
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mail lee this one!

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Ratty Rat
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Posted: 16th Dec 2002 16:29
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Actually I`ve discovered its quite simple, anything after the '#constant whatever ' part gets replaced in the rest of the code, for instance you could use it to make abbreviations for commonly used commands IE '#constant po position object' will replace 'po' with 'position object' anywhere in your code!

in the above bit of code the bit -'STR$(maxlaser)' was getting replaced by 'STR$(3 : rem jjjj)' so its not likely to work!

Also as #constant has not yet made it into the instructions I`m not sure we can complain about it not working properly as its probably not supported yet.
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