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From: Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Newbie question about nested subroutines
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:37:04 +0100
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On 07/10/2011 17:34, Deanna Earley wrote:
> On 07/10/2011 16:26, ralph wrote:
>> Procedurename argument
>> is not semantically the same as
>> Procedurename (argument)
>>
>> However, I disagree with the characterization that it is a 'bug' or
>> that the results should even be 'unexpected'. The grammatic rules for
>> calling VB procedures and using parathentheses are very clear. If one
>> doesn't follow the rules then surprises are to be expected.<g>
>
> Of course, but I expect people to not read/know the rules and so will
> not be expecting defined behaviour :p
> That and the amount of people I've had to tell this to when they were
> bitten by it...

Oh, and by bug I meant a bug in people's code that has the () when it 
shouldn't, not a bug in the VB libs/parsing.

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