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

[Dave Froble]

On 10/4/2021 1:56 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 10/4/2021 1:37 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 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 ?
>
> You could try.
>
> I get:
>
>         s = v + ""
> ..............^
> %BASIC-E-ILLMODMIX, illegal mode mixing
>
> Arne
>

Basic uses built in functions for such.

B$ = NUM1$(123)
B = VAL(B$)


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