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From: drc@dbase.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW C bug, again!
Message-ID: <345@dbase.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 14:34:11 GMT
References: <3331@tekgvs.TEK.COM> <6055@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale Cal.
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Keywords: MPW C bug

In article <6055@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) writes:
>    You think that's a bug? That's not a bug, this is a bug...
> 
>    short i,j,k,ok,l;
> 
>   Seems you can't have a varible named 'ok'.
>   Ran into this one porting gnuchess. Arrgh.

Yes, you can have a variable named 'ok'.  The problem you are running into here
is that there are a couple of constants predeclared by the Dialog Manager as
per Inside Mac for ok and cancel (named, interestingly enough, ok and cancel).
You're trying to redeclare something here and the compiler, quite correctly,
is telling you that you can't.  If you don't bring in those libraries and
interfaces, ok will be a valid identifier.

Dennis Cohen
Ashton-Tate Macintosh Division
dBASE Mac Development Team
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