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From: siegel@endor.uucp (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Bug in Lightspeed Pascal 2.03
Message-ID: <5725@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 91 12:08:23 GMT
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In article <297@farcomp.UUCP> murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar) writes:
>
>You think that's weird, occasionally I have problems with Booleans where
>Lightsbug says a variable is FALSE but the Observe window says it's TRUE.
>That's a head scratcher.  This is also LSP 2.03.  I haven't tried it in 
>3.0.

	Uninitialized Booleans can be both false and true; LightsBug thinks
that any non-1 value is false, and Observe gets somewhat confused with non-
zero, non-one values. The bug is fixed in LightsBug; any non-zero, non-one
Boolean will be shown as "True?". The fix will show up in a future version.

R.





 Rich Siegel	Symantec Languages Group  Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu

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