Any trick to disable compile time field completion?

Posted by slacroixak on 07-Nov-2016 11:37

Hi all,

You might all have hit this situation where someone has forgotten to define a simple 'i' or 'c' variable in a routine but the compiler picks up a table field with a name that begins with 'i' or 'c' considering it was just abbreviated. A bit scary case with error messages at runtime if you are lucky.

FIND FIRST OrderLine.
/* i  will refer to OrderLine.Itemnum because orderline provides one single field with a name that begins 'i'' */
MESSAGE i
    VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX INFO BUTTONS OK.

Have I missed a trick or magic parameter to limit or disable this compile-time completion?  Our team regularly considers this issue wishing there would be a way to overcome it.  If there is no trick, how would you support an new Enhancement Request for that (called 'ideas' nowadays).

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Posted by Brian K. Maher on 07-Nov-2016 11:40

I think that is already part of the “strict compilation” project (enhancement).

Posted by Mike Fechner on 07-Nov-2016 11:44

This has been discussed as one of the features of a strict mode for the compiler. Fingers crossed an we will see that in 11.7


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slacroixak

Hi all,

You might all have hit this situation where someone has forgotten to define a simple 'i' or 'c' variable in a routine but the compiler picks up a table field with a name that begins with 'i' or 'c' considering it was just abbreviated. A bit scary case with error messages at runtime if you are lucky.

FIND FIRST OrderLine.
/* i  will refer to OrderLine.Itemnum because orderline provides one single field with a name that begins 'i'' */
MESSAGE i
    VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX INFO BUTTONS OK.

Have I missed a trick or magic parameter to limit or disable this compile-time completion?  Our team regularly considers this issue wishing there would be a way to overcome it.  If there is no trick, how would you support an new Enhancement Request for that (called 'ideas' nowadays).

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