Comments on: ★ What Error http://awads.net/wp/2010/04/20/what-error/ News, views, tips and tricks on Oracle and other fun stuff Mon, 21 May 2012 00:26:47 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Eddie Awad http://awads.net/wp/2010/04/20/what-error/comment-page-1/#comment-53570 Eddie Awad Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:02:07 +0000 http://awads.net/wp/?p=1650#comment-53570 <p>My preference is to have all variable initializations done in the body rather than the declaration. If you want to catch an exception that may result from initializing a variable you'd better move the assignment from the declaration to the body.</p> My preference is to have all variable initializations done in the body rather than the declaration. If you want to catch an exception that may result from initializing a variable you’d better move the assignment from the declaration to the body.

]]> By: gary http://awads.net/wp/2010/04/20/what-error/comment-page-1/#comment-53569 gary Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:34:54 +0000 http://awads.net/wp/?p=1650#comment-53569 <p>I don't think it should be a compiler error as this is just a simple example of a more complex error situation. It could be an assignment from a parameter, package variables, SYS_CONTEXT call...</p> <p>I frown on assignment in the declaration section to anything other than a literal (number/string/date), but you don't have a choice for CONSTANTs which can't be assigned in the body.</p> I don’t think it should be a compiler error as this is just a simple example of a more complex error situation. It could be an assignment from a parameter, package variables, SYS_CONTEXT call…

I frown on assignment in the declaration section to anything other than a literal (number/string/date), but you don’t have a choice for CONSTANTs which can’t be assigned in the body.

]]> By: Venzi http://awads.net/wp/2010/04/20/what-error/comment-page-1/#comment-53568 Venzi Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:27:21 +0000 http://awads.net/wp/?p=1650#comment-53568 <p>Hi Eddi,</p> <p>I don't think that initializing variables in the declaration section can be considered as bad practice! I think it makes perfectly sense. Imagine a simple PL/SQL procedure with just 1 BEGIN/END block. You have the same situation, you overrun the buffer already during the initialization. I think this is an programming error and the compiler should print you the error already during compilation rather then throwing an exception during runtime. But I guess this is a matter of taste....</p> Hi Eddi,

I don’t think that initializing variables in the declaration section can be considered as bad practice! I think it makes perfectly sense. Imagine a simple PL/SQL procedure with just 1 BEGIN/END block. You have the same situation, you overrun the buffer already during the initialization. I think this is an programming error and the compiler should print you the error already during compilation rather then throwing an exception during runtime. But I guess this is a matter of taste….

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