Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Tue Nov 15 16:07:45 CST 2011
I did it in PowerBasic. On 15 Nov 2011 at 17:34, Gustav Brock wrote: > Hi Stuart > > You could but you didn't as that would have been sloppy code ... > > In VB(A) it would have self corrected; in Access Basic your variable would have been renamed to strmonth; in Visual Studio intellisense would have warned you. > > /gustav > > > >>> "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> 14-11-2011 23:50 >>> > Me too. I wrote something like this just yesterday: > > strMonth = Left$(Date$,2) > lngMonth = Val(strMonth) > ...... > 'lots of addition code using one or other of the above variables depending on context. > .... > > It makes the code very easy to follow. > And I could have written it as: > strMonth = Left$(Date$,2) > lngMonth = Val(strmonth) > > without any problem :-) > > -- > Stuart > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-VB mailing list > dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >