[Gambas-user] IIf syntax

[Randall Morgan]

I suspect that since you are declaring a return type on your functions that
the functions default to an integer return type. Try it and see...

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Emil Lenngren <emil.lenngren at ...626...>wrote:

> Hi. I wonder if this syntax is intended to be allowed ;)
>
> Public Function f1()
>  Print "f1!"
> End
>
> Public Function f2()
>  Print "f2!"
> End
>
> Public Sub Main()
>  IIf(True, f1, f2)()
> End
>
> It prints out "f1!" ...
>
> But in this code:
> Public Function f1(a As Integer)
> End
>
> Public Function f2(a As String)
>  a = "a string"     'Line 5
> End
>
> Public Sub Main()
>  Dim i As Integer
>  For i = -1 To 0
>    IIf(i, f1, f2)(1)
>  Next
> End
>
> I get this message: MMain.f2.5: #6: Type mismatch: wanted Integer, got
> String instead
> Which is weird because isn't the a argument of type String? ;)
>
> /Emil
>
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