Passing byte arrays instead of strings

[Jofers]

well... that's what I was thinking of with taht statement anyways. American keyboards have no use for tilde whatsoever.

So... where is your semicolon then? Did they just add a key?, and make the enter rectangular?

As for the suffix... it doesn't make any sense to have integer, double and single with a shortcut and not short and byte. I think it's sufficient to at least add "@" for byte and make "%" short. The "?" thing was just late night rambling

[na_th_an]

I use sufixes, but since I began coding in VB I'm having the good practice of not use them and declare my variables. I think they should be only allowed for backwards compatibility and be considered "deprecated" from now on.

[Jofers]

wow... your keyboard's totally different. That's kind of cool.

*shrug* I like using them. Really, if you wanted proper coding you'd force DIM declarations. Suffixes just make life easier, that's their purpose.

How do you accent vowels?

[na_th_an]

Look at the two keys that are marked red. You press them, then the vowel to get á, à, â, ä. That's inherited from typewriters.

Yeah, suffixes make your life easier, and I do like them, but I find it more "stylish" and also quite useful to force yourself to declare variables. It may be a bummer at first, but you get used to it fast. That's what Option Explicit is designed to: if you add that clausule at the beginning of your code, all undeclared variables produce a compile-time error.

[Jofers]

Aha. you clever bastards.

Yeah, I've dabbled plenty is strongly-typed languages (java, c, perl with strict). I also agree with you on style and cleanliness. But if you support suffixes, then support it right, that's all I'm saying. Right now there's three types supported by suffixes, and there are two symbols for one type, it's inconsistent.

Actually, I really don't care. But I have a tendency to get provoked by responses

[adosorken]

If you have a US keyboard and set it for an International layout (many people in PR do this), then you can do ñ by typing ~ and then n. Also, getting chars like é is by using ' and then e. Rhiannon and her mother both use this layout. Me, being the gringo that I am, I much prefer the US layout.