[chuck-users] Inner loop array index bug

[Stefan Blixt]

Aha... I agree that's a bit weird. Perhaps lines like these:
y => int z;

are seen as an initialization of z, where y can be taken from the outer
scope, and not treated the same as

int z;
y=> z;

/Stefan

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Hans Aberg <haberg at math.su.se> wrote:

> On 22 Apr 2009, at 21:01, Stefan Blixt wrote:
>
>  Compilers can't always be expected to understand every kind of error, and
>> that error message isn't the worst I've seen :) Still, if the opportunity os
>> there to change it to something better, now harm done. The situation can be
>> translated to this:
>>
>> int x;
>> 1 => x[1];
>>
>> which gives the same subscript error message. Hans's code is otherwise
>> without problems - ChucK allows (like many other languages) to reuse a
>> variable identifier in a new block, so x can be redeclared as an int in the
>> inner while loop, overshadowing the outer x which is an array.
>>
>
> The problem is really that 'chuck' accepts
>   x[msg.which] => int x;
> Then when a line after that is added
>   x[msg.which] => int x0;
> it complains about this line, giving that cryptic message, despite the fact
> that it is correct.
>
> When the first line is accepted, that gives the impression that this name
> overloading is legal, though it differs from C++. Thus I started to use it.
>
> Chuck needs to make up its mind: is this name overloading legal or not. If
> it is not, it should always be rejected.
>
>
>  Hans
>
>
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