[Info-vax] Micro Focus to be acquired by Open Text

[Chris Townley]

On 04/09/2022 00:36, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 9/3/2022 7:32 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 9/2/2022 10:48 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>
>>> Well, BASIC is really fond of $, which usually also gets replaced 
>>> with another
>>> character in these NRCS. ;-)
>>>
>>> I'll leave it at that.
>>
>> Please don't.  I'm curious, because I've not had the need to use "$" 
>> in Basic,
>> at least as far as I can remember, which these days might not be so far.
>>
>>
> 
> Ok, forget that request.  Somehow I totally forgot the "$" to denote a 
> string variable.
> 
> Basic can be rather fond of "%" also.
> 
> :-)
> 

I have never once used the $ in a string variable. Every program or 
module I wrote in Basic (many thousands of them) started with:

OPTION TYPE = EXPLICIT

so all variables of whatever type were declared, and I never used those 
suffixes

The $ is of course used in system and library calls

-- 
Chris