#286 Rexxref example 3.3 does not apparently work

[Geoff Stevens]

See attached program. Tried in 4.2.0 Win 10, 5.0.0 r12286 Debian 10.
According to the manual, the program should raise a syntax condition when attempting to set sizecontainer::size to a non-whole number.
Adding a trace statement to the attribute set body shows no activity.
I agree with the manual that this would be a useful feature for attribute validation, but it may be easier to change the manual to reflect what the interpreter appears to do.

[Rick McGuire]

You have an error in your program. The lines

sc.size = 1 -- succeeds
say sc.size

don't invoke the attribute methods, but they are rather accessing the compound variable SC.SIZE. These lines should be

sc~size = 1 -- succeeds
say sc~size

using the ~ to invoke the methods.

[Geoff Stevens]

Oh, how dumb of me.
Thanks for pointing out the error, Rick.