as keyword

Joseph.LM.King · Post by **Joseph.LM.King** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 5:46 am

what does 'as' do, it highlights in pb 4.0 however, it seems to do nothing.

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:56 am

One place it is used in "Import":

Import "Filename"
  FunctionName.<type>(<parameter>, [, <parameter> [= DefaultValue]...]) [As "SymbolName"]
  ...

I can't think of any others off the top of my head.

netmaestro · Post by **netmaestro** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:28 am

I don't believe there are any other uses, it's a new keyword for version 4's Import command.

Joseph.LM.King · Post by **Joseph.LM.King** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:08 pm

oh that's fine. it would make purebasic very comfortable if you could declare types as byte, and as whatever using the keyword 'as'