Re: basic BASIC question

On 2025-01-31, Dave Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com> wrote:

On 1/31/2025 1:28 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:

On 2025-01-31, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

Is it common to use:
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declare integer const

ant TRUE = -1

declare integer constant FALSE = 0
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Oh goody. The "good" old days, when TRUE did not equal TRUE, are back. :-)
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Not sure what that means ...
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In the old days, some people defined TRUE as -1, while others in the
same or related ecosystems defined TRUE as +1, hence TRUE did not
equal TRUE. It's been a long time, but I think I saw this back in the
Microsoft world back in the Windows 98/Windows 2000[1] days when calling
modules written in different languages.

Simon.

[1] BTW, I still think the Windows 2000 UI was vastly superior to the
UI stuff we are forced to use these days...

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