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|    =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?= to Robert A. Brooks    |
|    Re: basic BASIC question    |
|    31 Jan 25 11:03:05    |
      From: arne@vajhoej.dk              On 1/31/2025 10:28 AM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:       > On 1/31/2025 10:18, Arne Vajhøj wrote:       >> Is it common to use:       >>       >> declare integer constant TRUE = -1       >> declare integer constant FALSE = 0       >       > Yeah, I've seen that a lot, especially code that started on the PDP-11.              In this case it is brand new code being written on VMS x86-64.              But there are special circumstances. I want to write the       same code in Pascal, Basic and Cobol. I started writing the       Pascal version. And I used true and false.              Arne              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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