Re: Partial loop counter override by local variable

Cam
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:23:28 -0000

Just ran into the same issue as MarkMT. The code required for the
functionality he describes is fairly nasty atm.

Glad to hear the original way is back in Edge, just need the next
official release now!



On Aug 3, 11:44 pm, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 3 Aug 2008, at 23:35, MarkMT wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, the ability to do this appears to have disappeared in
> > 2.1, and leaves me resorting to some pretty nasty stuff to achieve the
> > same effect. It appears that regardless of the value passed to the
> > local variable, when thepartialis invoked on an object, internally
> > the variable is just set to zero.
>
> Looks like it''s back in edge :-)
> Assuming it''s desirable behaviour, sounds to me like the right
thing
> to do would be to add a test for it so that it doesn''t get
trampled on
> in the future.
>
> Fred
>
> > This seems like a step backwards. Anyone want to explain the thinking
> > behind this, or suggest an elegant alternative strategy for
> > implementing the kind of case I described?