[Gambas-user] Property question....

[Stephen Bungay]

Benoit Minisini wrote:
> On vendredi 14 mars 2008, Stephen Bungay wrote:
>>   Given the following....
>>
>> PUBLIC mRecordSet AS Result
>>
>> PROPERTY RecordSet AS Result
>> PRIVATE FUNCTION RecordSet_Read() AS Result
>>    RETURN (mRecordSet) ' This will probably never get used
>>                        ' access mRecordSet directly.
>> END
>>
>> PRIVATE SUB RecordSet_Write(Value AS Result)
>>    IF NOT IsNull(Value) THEN
>>       IF Value.Count > 0 THEN
>>          mRecordSet = Value
>>          PopulateForm
>>       END IF
>>    END IF
>> END
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> ' Only gets called when Property RecordSet is written to...
>> Private Sub PopulateForm()
>>    ' Code to populate the form from data in mRecordSet goes here
>> END
>>
>>
>> An assignment of a result set to property 'RecordSet' will yield
>> "Unknown identifier: RecordSet at line [line number] in [formname].class.
> 
> This is a compiler error. Please explain how you can get it at runtime while 
> assigning the property!
> 

   Yes the error is happening at compile time and is something I did not 
expect (i.e. since RecordSet is declared as a property it should be a 
'known' identifier).