using the Extended Method 'Union' ... help ?

[robert]

Phil,

These is a topic X# keywords in the help file. (Under X# Language Reference)

Robert

[Phil Hepburn]

Okay Robert,

Thanks, I have all the documentation sufficient for the moment, and a bit more perhaps ;-0)

Tomorrow is another day - now the soccer, Man United trying to get to the final round of the League Cup.

Cheers,
Phil.

[Phil Hepburn]

Okay Robert,

Thanks, I have all the documentation sufficient for the moment, and a bit more perhaps ;-0)

Tomorrow is another day - now the soccer, Man United trying to get to the final round of the League Cup.

Cheers,
Phil.

[Frank Maraite]

Hi Robert,

is there really no better solution for that kind of issues?

The word 'union' is clearly used as a method call. Why does it conflict with a reserved word? Should the error message say more about this reason?

Many reserved word are the cost of the verbose XBase language, but leads to issues like this.

Frank

[Phil Hepburn]

Hi Frank, Chris and Robert,

Particularly since it is only the second occurrence of 'Union' which causes an issue.

See attached image :-

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Line 143 appears to work OK !?

And this is reinforced by the blue colouration only appearing on the second occurrence of 'Union' - see below :-

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This code does not compile.

I suppose I should have twigged (noticed) what was going on - BUT - because of an earlier case of LINQ query syntax not seeming to colour correctly in my version of VS 2017, I just got on with things and started to ignore all various colouration of the text and command words.

For some reason the current pre-compiler seems to see the two Unions in a different light / way.

Any sort of improvement will certainly be a help - I realise you are juggling a lot of balls in the air, but then you and the Team are 'Magic' !!!! So that's what we expect ;-0)

Cheers,
Phil.

[robert]

Hi Robert,

is there really no better solution for that kind of issues?

The word 'union' is clearly used as a method call. Why does it conflict with a reserved word? Should the error message say more about this reason?

Many reserved word are the cost of the verbose XBase language, but leads to issues like this.

Frank

Some reserved words are also allowed as identifier. Union is not. At this moment UNION is in our 'VO keywords' list which is not allowed as identifier. You will have to prefix Union with @@ to make this work.,

I will move Union to the list of keywords that can be used as identifier, as well as Event (which is often used in VO event handler code).
Any other suggestions ?

Robert

[wriedmann]

Hi Robert,

I will move Union to the list of keywords that can be used as identifier, as well as Event (which is often used in VO event handler code).
Any other suggestions ?

I would like INSTANCE and maybe FIELD, if possible.

Wolfgang

[Otto]

Some reserved words are also allowed as identifier. Union is not. At this moment UNION is in our 'VO keywords' list which is not allowed as identifier. You will have to prefix Union with @@ to make this work.,

I will move Union to the list of keywords that can be used as identifier, as well as Event (which is often used in VO event handler code).
Any other suggestions ?

Robert

Does the problem disappear if the code is case sensitive? UNION as keyword, Union as method.

[robert]

Otto,

Some reserved words are also allowed as identifier. Union is not. At this moment UNION is in our 'VO keywords' list which is not allowed as identifier. You will have to prefix Union with @@ to make this work.,

I will move Union to the list of keywords that can be used as identifier, as well as Event (which is often used in VO event handler code).
Any other suggestions ?

Robert

Does the problem disappear if the code is case sensitive? UNION as keyword, Union as method.

Yes case sensitivity would make things much easier.
However this problem will be solved anyway in the version of X# that will be released this week. I have moved the following keywords to the list of keywords that can also be used as identifiers:

ALIGN, CALLBACK, CLIPPER, DECLARE, DEFINE, DELEGATE, DIM, DOWNTO, DLLEXPORT,
ENUM, EVENT, FASTCALL, FIELD, FUNC, GLOBAL, IN, INHERIT, INSTANCE, INTERFACE,
OPERATOR, PASCAL, PROC, PROPERTY, SEQUENCE, STEP, STRICT, STRUCTURE, THISCALL,
UNION, UNTIL, UPTO, USING, VOSTRUCT , WINCALL

This may lead to confusion when typing, especially if you trust the colors inside the editor.
For example: if you start typing the keyword FUNC

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Then it will be black (identifier) but after you add the name of the function then it will become Blue

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Some keywords are difficult to be allowed as identifier, because they appear alone on a line and the parser will not know if the word TRY on a line means the beginning of a try statement or a variable with the name TRY.

[Phil Hepburn]

Well guys,

As ever, Robert is true to his word and version 2.9 of the compiler seems to solve my 'Union' problem / issue.

Take a look at what now compiles and runs in my developing LINQ app - line 179 is where the BIG change has occurred :-

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We no longer need a prefix of '@@' for 'Union', and we get no blue colouration either, which previously showed that the parser was seeing the second 'Union' as a keyword, rather than a method name.

Well done TEAM - onwards and upwards ............

Best regards,
Phil.
Wales, UK.