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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-10-04 17:37:45 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> 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 ?

Various BASIC compilers including IIRC VB can allow that syntax, but 
DEC BASIC doesn't. There are in-line string conversion functions.

DEC BASIC was in various ways both more strict and more flexible than 
its BP2 predecessor, including the addition of the OPTION TYPE = 
EXPLICIT setting, and the elimination of most line numbers.


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