[Gambas-user] Why is val() so roundabout?

[Rob]

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 02:42, Eilert wrote:
> But why did Benoit implement val() this way? I don't see any sense
> in it, but there might be one (I'm not a professional programmer
> after all).

Are you sure VB didn't do it the same way?  It had to be either VB or 
VBscript, but I remember doing a LOT of iif(isnull(...)...) before I 
came up with the idea of just doing that standard function each 
time....

Rob