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Subject: Re: Programmers: please check my alpha-beta algorithm

Author: Edward Seid

Date: 09:35:59 09/29/03

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On September 29, 2003 at 12:15:04, Rafael Andrist wrote:

>On September 29, 2003 at 12:12:15, Edward Seid wrote:
>
>>On September 29, 2003 at 12:03:20, Rafael Andrist wrote:
>>
>>>On September 29, 2003 at 11:49:20, Edward Seid wrote:
>>>
>>>>      Dim index, width As Integer
>>>
>>>At least in older VB versions, "index" is now of data type Variant, not Integer.
>>>Not sure how VB.NET handles this, but I doubt they fixed this flaw.
>>>
>>>Dim index As Integer, width as Integer
>>>would be necessary in older VB versions, otherwise you need more space and more
>>>time for the conversion.
>>
>>I'm using 'index' as a variable name for a Loop counter.  It seems to work fine
>>as I have it written and 'index' doesn't seem to be a reserved word in VB.NET.
>
>It has nothing to do with the word "index" or a reserved word.
>
>Dim index, width As Integer
>==
>Dim index As Variant, width As Integer
>
>For all VB versions I know, though I did/could not check it with VB.NET

I found this in the MSDN Library, which addresses this issue.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcn7/html/vacondeclarationsyntax.asp
It looks like things have changed from VB6 to VB.NET and that my declaration is
correct in VB.NET.



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