ReFox Help - Notes to decompilation

Notes to decompilation:

• comments are not compiled, so are not recovered.
  
  
  
• the word PROCEDURE may be replaced by the word FUNCTION
  if the statement RETURN <expr> is found in the procedure body
  
  
  
• expression A[x] may be decompiled as A(x)
  
  
  
• leading 0's of numeric constants are omitted.
  
  
  
• compound statements are evaluated at compile time,
  so A = 1 + 2 + 3 is decompiled as A = 6
  
  
  
• the order of clauses may change during the compile/decompile process
  
  
  
• preprocessor directives #IF, #ENDIF, #INCLUDE, #DEFINE are evaluated at compile time
  - so
  #DEFINE MAXITEMS 10
  FOR nCount = 1 TO MAXITEMS
  are decompiled as
  FOR nCount = 1 TO 10
  
  
  
• lines with ‘&’ (macro substitution) and lines with error are not compiled, but copied to the p-code
  - so
  USE (TableName) EXCLUSIVE NOUPDATE ALIAS TableAlias
  USE &TableName EXCLUSIVE NOUPDATE ALIAS TableAlias
  are decompiled as
  use excl noupd (TABLENAME) alia TABLEALIAS... reformatted
  USE &TableName EXCLUSIVE NOUPDATE ALIAS TableAlias... exact copy
  

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