On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 5:00 PM, < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 2015-11-13 03:50, Dave Crozier wrote: > >> Gentlemen, >> Just had a really good look at Swift which seems to be the >> latest/greatest way to write IOS apps and is being pushed as the >> preferred IOS development platform as opposed to Objective (Well >> named!!) C. >> >> Funnily enough the languages bears many similarities to VFP and the >> features we have had for YEARS and YEARS!!! >> Some big revolutionary steps forward evidently being: >> >> 1. Automatically defined variable types: >> varA = "Hello" >> varB=1 >> > > > Remember when the VB/M$ camp (correct me as needed) was saying how this > LATE BINDING was such a bad thing??? So many "oh no, that's bad" things > turned out to be JUST FINE thank you very much. FUD at its best. > ----------------------- FUD? This distills down to an check that the compiler will use to verify that this line of code is using the correct containers to hold it. That points out easily where convert statements need to be considered or give you a heads up that what you thought was happening isn't. You may have been referencing the wrong element in an array laArray(x,y) expecting a date to be there in y but it is actually money. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAJidMYK3pFL4jGgHFeOXQqb5o5jD-xnmhmYzd-6nO-aUm=-f...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
