[futurebasic] Re: [FB] XREF vs Growing your own

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From: Mark Goodes <wave@...>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:51:37 -0500
>Mark wrote:
>> I don't think you can even XREF record variables anyway, just shorts and
>>longs.
>
>You can _theoretically_ XREF[@] record variables.  However, there is a
>bug in FB involving the use of XREF'ed record variables, which can cause
>a system crash.  The bug seems to exist for XREF, but not for XREF@.
>
>- Rick

Thanks Rick, and everyone.  This must be the bug that I encountered some
time ago that caused my to start indexing all my pointer and handle arrays
myself (once burned, twice shy).

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wave (Toronto, Canada)