[futurebasic] Re : [FB] parameters & more

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From: "jonathan" <jonathan@...>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:06:05 +0100
>On to a completely unrelated question (just not important enough to merit a
>fresh subject header). I was doing some stuff with rgnBbox'es, and it didn't
>work. Finally pinned it down to a simple typo:
>  temprgn&.rgnBbox.left% (one dot)
>by mistake for
>  temprgn&..rgnBbox.left% (two dots)
>No errors, it just didn't do anything. (Obvious disclaimer: no errors _visible
>to the naked eye_ --for all I know, it was overwriting a huge chunk of memory
>that the app happened not to be using just then.) But I'm curious-- does
>anyone know what FB or the compiled app _thought_ it was doing when it
>encountered that single dot?


i believe - page 305 in refernce manual:
"2 periods for a handle, 1 for a pointer"

jonathan