[Gambas-user] $, # and DIM

[Charlie]

Benoît Minisini schrieb:

>Le Mercredi 22 Janvier 2003 20:42, Jochen Georges a écrit :
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>>On Tuesday 21 January 2003 22:02, Benoît Minisini wrote:
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>>>Le Mardi 21 Janvier 2003 21:13, jochen.georges at ...22... a écrit :
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>>>>hello gambasians,
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>>>>three litle questions:
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>>>>what does a "$" mean as the first character of a variables
>>>>name?
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>>>In Gambas, you can't put a "$" in the beginning of a variable
>>>name ! Or dou you mean the LAST character ?
>>>Or am I wrong, and it is a compiler bug then.
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>>sorry, i wrote the mail not at my computer, so i confounded § and $.
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>>so, again:
>>what does a § in front of a variable mean?
>>PRIVATE §hExpr AS NEW Expression
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>Nothing. It is just a special character discretely allowed in identifier 
>names. I use it for identifying global variables. I think I will remove it in 
>the future, because it is possible that this character is only directly 
>accessible from a french keyboard ! Sorry for that :-)
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§ is an international char (latin)

Charlie

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>>what does a # in front of a variable mean?
>>OPEN FileName FOR READ AS #FileName
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>It just a syntactic decoration coming from the syntax of the BASIC. Try to 
>remove it, maybe it is optional. If not, I could easily modify the compiler 
>so that it becomes optional.
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>>thanks for any hint.
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>>best egruesse
>>jochen
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>Regards,
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