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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-09-04 02:44, Chris Townley wrote:
> 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

Even when you have fancy BASICs that have explicit variable 
declarations, and ignoring system and library calls, you still have all 
the string functions in BASIC which include $.

LEFT$, RIGHT$, MID$, STR$, SPACE$, STRING$, NUM$... The list goes on and 
on...

   Johnny