Conference azur::mcc

400.0. "Symbols and USE DEFAULT. Restriction or problem in the FCL ?" by BYBLOS::TAMER () Wed Oct 10 1990 13:38

I am using V1.1 IFT. It appears that symbol substitution and use default entity
are not playing together.  The documentation says that symbols cannot be 
nested but I could not find something like symbols cannot be used in default 
expressions.

Here is the example:


TP_manager> display symbol
                            Symbol Name   Symbol Value
                            -----------   ------------
                                   PHIL : .server.phil

TP_manager> show server phil all char
server TPEDNS_NS:.server.phil      <---------Note entity CI pair (correct)
Characteristics
AT 10-OCT-1990 12:13:40


Examination of entity attributes shows:

                      Creation Interval = 10 Seconds
                         Creation Delay = 10 Seconds
                      Deletion Interval = 15 Seconds
                         Deletion Delay = 30 Seconds

TP_manager> use default entity server phil
%MCC-S-DEFENT, using default server phil
TP_manager> show all char
server TPEDNS_NS:.phil            <--------Note the CI pair now(it is incorrect)
Characteristics
AT 10-OCT-1990 12:14:54


Error in Parameter value or missing parameter
TP_manager>

Hi,

This is a restriction in the FCL.  It currently does symbol substitution before
it inserts any defaults, and does not do symbol substitution on the defaults
it inserts.  FCL also does not do symbol substitution on anything it reads
during command completion prompting.

These restrictions will be documented.


Thanks for your note.

Pete

    OOPs, sorry I just never thought of that one. Another item for
    the futures list.