[Info-vax] LLVM, volatile and async VMS I/O and system calls

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-10-04, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> Can't you just agree that using such an operation when it is not 
> required is poor programming practice?
>

I was addressing the other issues raised in your post, not this one,
but on the face of it, if copying of strings is always done by value
these days, then it appears redundant and in an obviously deterministic
way, provided there are no side effects from doing this.

BTW, I don't know DEC Basic, but I have one question based on other
languages. While copying a string in this way appears redundant based
on what you are saying, are there any implicit type conversions that
can be done by adding an empty string to the other value ?

For example, can you convert an integer to a string in this way ?

Simon.

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