[Gambas-user] IF Not (any boolean) then

[Tobias Boege]

On Fri, 02 Jan 2015, adamnt42 at ...626... wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 23:13:20 +0100
> Tobias Boege <taboege at ...626...> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 01 Jan 2015, Lewis Balentine wrote:
> > > If I use "NOT" in an "IF" statement with any boolean (function or value) 
> > > then I get an error. example:
> > > 
> > > If NOT (BooleanFuntion) then Do this
> > > unknown identifier: NOT
> > > 
> > > Am I mistaken in thinking that one should be able to use the NOT 
> > > operator in this manner ?
> > > 
> > > I can get around this by changing the syntax to. example:
> > > If BooleanFuntion = False then Do this
> > > 
> > 
> > Attached is a script which works over here. If you use Not in the same way,
> > there must be an error in your Gambas or the parts of your code which you
> > didn't show us. (The latter being a common outcome of not sending the whole
> > script/project ;-))
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Tobi
> > 
> > -- 
> > "There's an old saying: Don't change anything... ever!" -- Mr. Monk
> 
> Hey Tobi!
> 
> Didn't we do this one a few weeks ago?
> 
> The error is not the NOT it's the missing () ....
> 
> b :-)

And I insist that it would be easier to spot if there was a whole concrete
(yet minimal) script to look at, not abstracting from important syntactical
details like parentheses or whether BooleanFunction above was actually a
Function returning a Boolean or an expression producing a Boolean. Well
whatever, see you next time, I guess :-)

Regards,
Tobi

-- 
"There's an old saying: Don't change anything... ever!" -- Mr. Monk