08-04-2025, 01:03 AM
More like in his next life. In this life, I see Steve as more of an amateur-fessor, you know, more like rolling in unpaid knowledge. Hey, maybe he should run a baking forum instead. That way, at least he'd be rolling in dough. I left out farming, because rolling in the hay is a topic more suited to the NSFW sub-forum. 
Good topic Dim, on CONST, +1. Personally I'm in love with confusion so I never use it. It's also a lot more fun when Steve is helping me debug a routine, because it always gives him a headache. I'm heavily invested in BAYRY, the stock symbol for Bayer, makers of aspirin and thanks to Steve, I'm the one rolling in dough!
Seriously though, Steve explained some really great points in favor of the use of CONST, and I'll add one more, variable identification. Since CONST is typically placed at the top of the program code, it also provides a first glance to important variables that will be be found throughout the code. This provides a greater ease of understanding to coders who are seeing the program for the first time as well as defining a variable as a constant. BASICally, two birds with one stone, which should really speak to Canadians who can't own fire arms.
Pete
Good topic Dim, on CONST, +1. Personally I'm in love with confusion so I never use it. It's also a lot more fun when Steve is helping me debug a routine, because it always gives him a headache. I'm heavily invested in BAYRY, the stock symbol for Bayer, makers of aspirin and thanks to Steve, I'm the one rolling in dough!
Seriously though, Steve explained some really great points in favor of the use of CONST, and I'll add one more, variable identification. Since CONST is typically placed at the top of the program code, it also provides a first glance to important variables that will be be found throughout the code. This provides a greater ease of understanding to coders who are seeing the program for the first time as well as defining a variable as a constant. BASICally, two birds with one stone, which should really speak to Canadians who can't own fire arms.
Pete