Subject Re: [firebird-support] Is this a bug of Firebird?
Author Walter R. Ojeda Valiente
Post date 2017-02-10T21:50:32Z
A warning would be enough.

If after the INTO clause there are 2 or 3 variables, no problem, it will be very easy to detect the mistake. But sometimes that is not the case because there are 20+ variables and if variable 3 is called "lcName" and variable 24 is called "lcName" too, the programmer can have a hard time detecting the problem.

Greetings.

Walter.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 12:19 PM, 'Leyne, Sean' Sean@... [firebird-support] <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Doug,

> Delphi's latest compiler provides a hint in these cases:
>
> var
>   x: Int32;
> begin
>   try
>     x := 0;
>     x := 1;
>     writeln(x);
> end.
>
> [dcc32 Hint] Project1.dpr(14): H2077 Value assigned to 'x' never used
> (Line 14 is the one assigning zero.)

In hindsight my post should have read more like:

- No compiler would treat the condition as an error. A warning, Yes. But not an error.

- There are plenty of DB tools (IBExpert for one) which perform their own "syntax checking" and report warnings (though I would need to test if IBE reports a warning for this case).

- AFAIK, the FB engine only reports errors. So, a new set of functions/methods would need to be developed to report and handle warnings.


Sean