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Defint A-Z
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It makes all variables that don't have a dollar sign (i.e. not a string) into integers. Integers have no decimal point, just plain ole numbers. Anything with a decimal is rounded up to the next whole number. It's just an easy way of making QBasic treat all number variables as whole numbers.
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And that generally used to speed things up (because loop counters usually integers and Basic works faster with integers)
But you can define over types of variables with dim (like dim x as double) or use special symbols to denote type (x!, x#, x& and as was mentioned x$).
And that generally used to speed things up (because loop counters usually integers and Basic works faster with integers)
But you can define over types of variables with dim (like dim x as double) or use special symbols to denote type (x!, x#, x& and as was mentioned x$).
KingPoncho
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in addition.... where do you put it? do you just toss it in the beginning of your program, and it will apply to all variables after?
King Poncho
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qbasicking
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It can be placed anywhere but is normally placed at the top of SUBs
DEFINT A-Z
SUB subname (parameter)
...
END SUB
If a man says something in the forest and no woman hears it is he still wrong?
DEFINT A-Z
SUB subname (parameter)
...
END SUB
If a man says something in the forest and no woman hears it is he still wrong?
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