RE: CASE problems (in The DSSSList Digest V3 #81)

[Avi Kivity <Avi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, June 24, 1999 00:52, MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx
[SMTP:MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> >[SMTP:MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> >> The core statement is a case, basically
> >> 
> >>   (case (attribute-string "DEC")
> >>     (("reg") (code to print the item))
> >>     (("rtn") (empty-sosofo))
> >>     (("pend")(empty-sosofo))
> >>     ((#f)    (debugging code))
> >>   )
> >> 
> >> 
> >Do you get "rtn" or "RTN"? I always get attribute values
> >uppercased.
> 
> I get "rtn" (without the quotes).  Thinking that this might be the
> problem,
> one of the things I did to try to fix it was to uppercase the string
> in the
> case statement (i.e. use (("RTN")... instead of (("rtn")... ); it
> did not
> change the behavior of the system.

Ugh! Try substituting "rtn" in the case key (for "(attribute-string ...)").
If that works, then there probably is a silly mistake in the debug code; you
aren't printing what you're testing (is the attribute "DEC" or "DECISION"?).

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