Re: String or Numeric Variable?

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:25:02 -0500, "ProfitMaxTrading.com"
<nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>What I believe you are referring to is Zero-Extension or Sign-Extension. A
>1-byte value such as &H7F thus becomes &H007F or &H0000007F, etc.?
>
>Then this begs another question.
>
>1. Why bother even having a BYTE type, or an INTEGER type?
>
>If we can simply substitute a LONG type for the other two, that would make
>typing that much easier.
>
Typing is part of programming. :)

>Can you think of examples where this would not be the case?
>
Many. Byte arrays are a wonderful thing.
VB Integers are...old.

I use Longs for just about anything i can.

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Regards, Frank
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