Re: basic BASIC question

On 31/01/2025 16:03, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 1/31/2025 10:28 AM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:

On 1/31/2025 10:18, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

Is it common to use:
>
declare integer constant TRUE = -1
declare integer constant FALSE = 0

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Yeah, I've seen that a lot, especially code that started on the PDP-11.

 In this case it is brand new code being written on VMS x86-64.
 But there are special circumstances. I want to write the
same code in Pascal, Basic and Cobol. I started writing the
Pascal version. And I used true and false.
 Arne
 

I often get confused which languages/variants redefine True and False. I can find many thousands in my old codebase!
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Chris