[Gambas-user] Removing / Modifying IsXXXX() functions in Gambas3

[B. Jack]

Perhaps GAMBAS needs something like Python's <string> y=repr(<any> x) to guarantee y is a string representation of x

> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:04:58 +0100
> From: ron at ...1740...
> To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Removing / Modifying IsXXXX() functions in Gambas3
> 
> 
> >>> Mail.module:    IF IsString(Main.GlobalVar["Minute"]) THEN
> >>> Main.GlobalVar["Minute"] = Val(Main.GlobalVar["Minute"])
> >> Just seems to be checks to see if the variant value from that collection
> >> isn't empty, to prevent errors.
> > So use 'Not IsNull()' instead.
> >
> 
> I get when I do  If Not IsNull(Main.GlobalVar["Minute"]) Then ....
> 
> Error: Type Mismatch wanted string, got integer.
> 
> Main.GlobalVar["Minute"] 's  value is 34
> 
> Main.GlobalVar[] is a Collection with Variants , so contains all types 
> of values.
> 
> Sometimes, (don't know why) Main.GlobalVar["Minute"] contained a string 
> so "34" instead of an integer, then further down my program things went 
> wrong, so therefor this stupid check and correction posted above was used..
> 
> Regards,
> Ron_2nd.
> 
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