[Info-vax] Coding with/without RDBMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/15/2021 2:02 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <6168bb2f$0$701$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 
>> On 10/14/2021 3:36 PM, Dave Froble 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. :-)
>>>
>>> And other languages don't have such quirks?
>>
>> Most does not.
>>
>> Fortran use variable names for implicit typing as well.
> 
> Still there for backward compatibility, but IMPLICIT NONE has been there
> in the standard since Fortran 90, and as an extension before, and the
> standard IMPLICIT LOGICAL or whatever would have essentially the same
> effect and was standard even before IMPLICIT NONE was.

And VMS Basic got:

OPTION TYPE = EXPLICIT

for the same.

Arne