ORDER Error

[DavidM]

(01-07-2021 12:39 PM)Giuseppe Donnini Wrote:  The job of the ORDER command is not to reorder the elements of a given menu, but to reorder the variables in the current directory, that is, to adequately rearrange the linked list of identifier/object pairs stored in the dedicated RAM area called USEROB. The new order will then automatically be reflected by the built-in VAR menu — but not by any other menu, including temporary or custom menus containing, or even consisting entirely of, variables from the current directory.

All true, of course, but I (perhaps mistakenly) perceived the actual goal here as simply placing certain strings in those menu positions on the screen to achieve the display of a particular message. Hence my suggestion.

If MNH truly wants to rearrange the order of those globals in the directory, one way to do that without running into the command-line parser's confusion would be:

1. Obtain a list of the globals in the current directory with the VARS command
2. Explode that list (OBJ→ DROP)
3. Rearrange the order as needed with the interactive stack (ROLL and ROLLD would be very helpful for this)
4. Recombine into a new list (<quantity> →LIST)
5. Execute ORDER
   

Having to "jump through hoops" like this is just one of the potential pitfalls of having non-standard names for globals, which is a good reason not to use them IMHO.