[Gambas-user] Gambas example question

[Benoit Minisini]

On Saturday 03 December 2005 16:29, Fabricio Santos wrote:
> Viva Andy,
>
> I was looking at this example in the Gambas help browser and I have a
> question about it:
>
> ==================================
> I suggest the following code.
>
> PRIVATE $hConn AS Connection
>
> PUBLIC SUB GoConnect()
>   DIM sName AS String
>   TRY $hConn.Close
>     sName = "fgda"
> ...
> ==================================
>
> Is there a special reason for the variable name to include a $ sign? Or
> is it just part of Gambas to accept a $ sign on any variable name and
> you decided to use it there?

The last answer is right. I just wanted to have a character to make an easy 
distinction between global private class variables and local variables :-)

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini