Word doen't work. How come?

[Randy Walker]

This renders zero in both PB ver 5.40 and ver 6.20

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Xit1.W = 33
Debug Xit.W

So why does Debug not give me 33 ?

[Randy Walker]

Haha haaa I'm such an idiot -- Total I/O error.
Xit1 <> Xit (Duuhhhh)

[Little John]

Use EnableExplicit to avoid mistakes like that.

[Randy Walker]

Use EnableExplicit to avoid mistakes like that.

Yeah, I tried that but EnableExplicit causes me too much confusion.

[DarkDragon]

Use EnableExplicit to avoid mistakes like that.

Yeah, I tried that but EnableExplicit causes me too much confusion.

Not having EnableExplicit confused you, too. It just requires you to declare variables correctly.

[Quin]

Yeah, Explicit made using PB way nicer for me. Once you get used to it it's fairly simple, you just have to declare all your variables before you use them. For globals this is super simple:

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Global X = 10

In procedures, you use Protected, and I personally tend to declare all needed variables right at the top of the function to avoid scope weirdness:

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Procedure Test()
Protected I, Ret$,
For I = 0 To 10
Ret$ + "meow"
Next
Debug Ret$
EndProcedure

The only thing this makes slightly less convenient are for loops, which is why I really want the := operator, so we can go:

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For I := 0 To 10

Or even:

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For Protected I = 0 To 10