[Gambas-user] RE: A Beginner's Guide to Gambas (2)

[Charlie Reinl]

>Thanks Charlie.  Obviously, sStringLength on page 125 should be 
>iStringLength but sDateTime is a string var used to catch the return 
>value from the VAL call, as indicated in the code on page 143.  
 
But for a beginner that will not be logic, that I mean. 
 
he will think around why he change a date to a String, makes a Number 
(val) and then he store that number in an String variable ????????? 
  
> 
>The font size on those two places you mentioned was reduced to make the 
>code fit on a single line - it was a deliberate change and you may find 
>that it occurs in a couple of other places as well.  Regarding the 
>sample code errors in your previous mail, you are correct that it is not 
>bulletproof. I will leave that to the readers to correct as I was trying 
>to demonstrate how to use Gambas more than I was trying to teach good 
>coding skills (something we could probably all take a refresher on) 
><grin>.  You will find, if you read the chapter on errors, that I do 
>cover the topic of making your code more robust.  Keep sending your 
>feedback - it is all welcome! 
> 
>regards, 
>jr 
> 
> 
>From: Charlie Reinl <Karl at ...1168...> 
> A Beginner's Guide to Gambas (2)    
>2005-10-14 08:57 	 
> 
> Salut John, 
>  
> this is what I found in the book. 
>  
>  
> -- a little bit of notation but misunderstood, bad for beginners 
> DIM sStringLength AS Integer 
> ~ page 125 (2*) 
>  
> sDateTime = Val(Str$(Now)) 
> PRINT sDateTime; " is a string representation of current system time." 
> page 143 
>  
> page 296 and 297 are very intersting for a beginner, oh yeah 
>  
> page 348 the line befor END WITH has wrong fontsize.( page 344 also one 
>line) 
>  
>  
> Amicalment 
> Charlie 
> 
> 
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