[Info-vax] Coding with/without RDBMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/14/2021 3:42 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 10/14/2021 2:36 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 10/14/2021 2:06 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> BTW, Basic really does like spewing its special characters onto the
>>> end of variable references. :-)

> Basic can be very happy to let the programmer specify that all variables
> must be declared.  Then variable names can be whatever they are declared
> to be.  Frankly, I see no decent reason to do all that typing when the
> compiler can do a much better job than any programmer.  One just needs to
> give it some hints.  I learned the variable suffex stuff long ago, and
> it's just natural to me.  Just as conventions in another language might
> be natural to someone used to that language.

Having variable type determined by variable name is definitely
out of fashion. The only other language i know doing that is
Fortran (Fortran is first letter while Basic is suffix but
same concept).

But type inference is definitely in fashion.

var v = 123

instead of:

int v = 123

and:

var v = "ABC"

instead of:

String v = "ABC"

And for those that does not use languages less than 30 years
old: var means "dear compiler give this variable type based on
right hand side" not "I want to be able to assign anything to this 
variable".

Arne