On 18/05/17 11:59, John R Pierce wrote:
On 5/17/2017 4:51 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:
Variables ending in '$' date back to at least the early days of BASIC
- long before the spectre of Microsoft loomed large, let alone
'Visual Basic'!
I note even INT fields have $ names there... IBM used to like to use
$ in names for system stuff, SYS$BLAHBLAH or whatever.
Names ending in % were integers.
The BASIC I'm most familiar with was BBC BASIC as on the BBC MIcro and
the Acorn Archimedes.
Visual Basic is the only language I've ever written a program in that I
could not get to run - it should NEVER have had BASIC as part of its names.
Cheers,
Gavin
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