Known Issues for SPLASH

SPLASH lets you define “record event” variables such as:

 [ integer key1; | integer d1; string t1; ] var1; 

While you can conveniently reference the individual columns in “var1” using dot notation, you can only do this after the record event variable has been initialized. Once the record event has been initialized, you can access columns directly using dot notation (for example, count := var1.d1; or var1.t1 := 'Tuesday';). If you try to set column values using dot notation before initializing the record event with the bracket notation, the compiler will not flag an error, but the record will not yet exist and the assignment will fail.