NEW QUIZ #2

[Kenneth Brody]

(Why are your replies not including attributions?  Well, at least your copy 
of Outlook is properly quoting now.)

On 8/19/2011 9:48 AM, flowersoft at compuserve.com wrote:
[... quoting Laura ...]
>>> Quoting George Simon<george at flowersoftusa.com>:
>
>>> What is the only 3-letter long variable that cannot be used
>>> effectively in filePro?
>
>> Would you be thinking of DIM, END or something else?
>
> I thought you we not allowed to play.  Didn't you teach Ken everything he
> knows? ;-)
>
> Actually no, I was not thinking of DIM or END.  I was thinking of NOT.
>
> I see no problem with DIM if you are not using arrays.

Well, that's a big "if".  :-)

(Which goes back to my question of "used effectively".)

> END cannot be used because you cannot assign a value to it.

No?  This works just fine:

   Then: declare end
   Then: end = "This is the end"
   Then: mesgbox end

Of course, you can no longer have an "end" statement, which might be a 
little restrictive.

> I was thinking of NOT because even though you can assign a value to it, you
> cannot check it to see what value it contains.
>
> If: YES eq 22
> Then: NOT=YES
> If: NOT eq YES
> Then: gosub SOANDSO
>
> The first line passes syntax but not the second one.

But:

     If: YES eq NOT
   Then: gosub SOANDSO

works just fine.

-- 
Kenneth Brody