E-Basic problems

[David McFarlane]

Following up after an off-list exchange with Amy...

>I was looking at the random number generator, the Random 
>(function).  It was getting an error at the Sub Main()

Aha, that's it.  Most likely you innocently pasted that entire 
example script into an inline script object.  That will not work at 
all, as you cannot define a Sub in inline script (since that is 
already executing from withing a Sub), you must define Subs and 
Functions in the global User Area, as described in the Using E-Basic 
chapter of the User's Guide.

Furthermore, that example is really meant for version 1.x.  Back in 
version 1.x you could edit the raw source code as text directly in 
E-Run; version 2 took that away from us.  Anyway, you would open a 
blank E-Run window, then copy and paste the complete Random() example 
into E-Run, and run that.  Just to make sure, I tried this myself 
and... what do you know, the Random() example has an error in 
it!  They forgot to define their variables, you need to add a "Dim x, 
y, message" or the like in there, then it works.  Bad E-Prime example 
writers!  They really need to proofread and test what they write 
before foisting it off on innocent users!  I will report this error 
to PST in case they want to fix it in future documentation.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


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