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Date:Mon Jan 10 09:32:35 2000 
Subject:POP Bug or Lamer Ignornace? 
From:Lee 
Volume-ID:1000110.01 

Hi all

I've got a little POP program that includes the following line:

	vars debug = false;
	constant c = getline('Departure: ');
	constant d = getline('Destination or enter Q to quit: ');

Is this for some reason invalid?  On loading the program into 
VED for Win32, I get a strange response:

	Departure: 
	;;; DECLARING VARIABLE debug
	;;; DECLARING VARIABLE d

The next output the program intends to make includes some 
strangeness too:

	Calculating route from 	[constant d = 
	getline('Destination or enter Q to quit: ');] to
	<undef c>.

I hope you can see what's happening there: but could you 
please let me know why it happens?  Changing the datatype from
from constant to vars produces a different MISHAP: ste.

Hardcoding the same vars/constants allows the script to run
without mishaps.

Any help would be very much appreciated!

Lee Goddard
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