[Info-vax] Python for x86?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-05-10 17:00, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 5/10/2023 9:16 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2023-05-10 11:59, Chris Townley wrote:
>>> On 10/05/2023 04:39, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>> The defaults in Basic are LONG integers and Single FP.  A number, 
>>>> such as 1, is treated as a single precision FP, so that makes not 
>>>> being specific even worse.
>>>>
>>>> Note, I really don't like the FP default.  Any program I write 
>>>> specifies the defaults for both integers and FP.  Something like:
>>>>
>>>> OPTION SIZE = ( INTEGER WORD , REAL DOUBLE )
>>>
>>> Our coding standards insisted on
>>>
>>> OPTION TYPE = EXPLICIT
>>
>> That actually don't solve the problem observed here.
>> That only makes the compiler give errors if you don't explicitly 
>> declare variables. However constants are still being of the default 
>> type defined.
> 
> I am not a Basic person so not sure how much my opinion
> should count, but I think it would be nice with:
> 
> $ BASIC/VAR_TYPE_DEFAULT=EXPLICIT/LITERAL_TYPE_DEFAULT=INTEGER ...

Yeah. And I actually don't know what happens with constants when you say 
type is explicit. I sortof suspect they end up as FP again... :-/

I don't have VMS BASIC around to check there, but in BASIC+2 this is the 
case. With TYPE_DEFAULT set to EXPLICIT, literals become floating point 
unless % is added.

   Johnny