2009/12/18 James Paige <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 08:19:47AM -0800, [email protected] > wrote: >> teeemcee >> 2009-12-17 08:19:47 -0800 (Thu, 17 Dec 2009) >> 437 >> fbc does not export debugging symbols for strings implicitly declared or >> with a $ suffix. Giving me some trouble, I got rather sidetracked with the >> larger rather than immediate problem, so I remedied it somewhat by >> explicitly declaring all dimmed (and static) strings 'as string'. I left >> function arguments alone, they weren't a problem, and complelely undeclared >> strings as well of course. Terribly sorry if this clashes with something. > > It did not conflict with anything I was doing, and I am quite pleased by > it :) > > I remember when I was quite emotionally attached to the QB $ suffix > syntax, and I still sometimes speak the $ symbol aloud as the word > "string" (such as "The salmon dinner costs string-fourteen plus tip") > but I am getting very comfortable with its removal. > > --- > James
Hahah! It's also taken me a few years to feel more comfortable without than with $, but FB's buggy support for QB syntax is the killing stroke. There were still few variables with the same name but different suffix around - I had thought FB had dropped support for that at some point. _______________________________________________ Ohrrpgce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
