alice-teacher A simpler example of my parameter bug

[Edward Bujak]

Can you attach an Alice .A2W world file with this problem?

> From: triciamontreal at gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:40:06 -0400
> To: alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher A simpler example of my parameter bug
> 
> Does this same bug apply to methods.  I have a student who tried:
> 
> method1 (a )  {
> method2 (a)
> }
> this crashes.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> > We will soon have a release of Alice 2.2 that takes care of this problem. This is a known issue that was added in a previous release. If you go to the Alice Downloads page, to the previous releases section, and older version does not seem to have this problem.
> >
> > Our apologies,
> >
> > Don Slater
> >
> > On Mar 24, 2012, at 8:56 AM, Roger Wistar wrote:
> >
> >> I tried diagnosing my parameter bug from my previous message, and I think I have distilled it down into its simplest expression: for some reason, taking a parameter value in a function and passing it to another function does not work. The value of the parameter is mangled into the value 1.0. I created a program this morning which (I believe) illustrates this exact phenomenon.
> >>
> >> Can someone take a look at this and let me know if either I am making a really dumb mistake, or else if there is in fact a serious bug? This would totally break my ability to use parameters in nested function calls, so I would love to hear a workaround if this is actually a bug.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Roger Wistar
> >> rwistar at hotchkiss.org
> >> <testParams.a2w>_______________________________________________
> >> alice-teachers mailing list
> >> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> >> https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > alice-teachers mailing list
> > alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> ___..___........__.......__
> ...|....|__/....|...|......|...|__|
> ...|....|.....\...|...|__..|...|....|
> 
> "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mohandas K Gandhi
> _______________________________________________
> alice-teachers mailing list
> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers
 		 	   		  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/private/alice-teachers/attachments/20120326/a003e0e0/attachment-0001.html