At 2:45 PM -0400 on 10/30/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In a message dated 10/30/99 10:40:59 AM, you wrote:
>
>>>There, that suits you right! To tell you the truth, the only thing that I
>>>find BASIC to lack is the ability to make a data type, and to do sizeof().
>>
>>Lacking data types is a major problem, IMO. Sizeof is not so bad. Also bad
>>is the need for all those freakin' goto's.
>
>A) No BASIC programmer uses goto anymore.
Much code I have seen disagrees with you.
>First, GOSUB replaced it, but it
>didn't allow local variables, so SUB replaced gosub, which functions exactly
>like a C function.
Without user defined, overloaded types, etc.
>B) Lack of sizeof IS BAD. It's why I switched, I needed to do a blockmove to
>copy one record (primitive typedef) to another. Too bad, I couldn't figure
>out how much memory to copy.
That could be problematic.
