Subject: RE: CASE problems From: MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wroth, Mark) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 17:38:54 -0700 |
I'll make the experiment tonight; fortunately, Tony's suggestion (use of select-elements) has rendered it a matter of intellectual curiosity rather than desperate need. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:33:53 +0200 From: Avi Kivity <Avi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: RE: CASE problems (in The DSSSList Digest V3 #81) 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"?). DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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