VB6 With/End With - how to pass the object itself?
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From: MM on 5 Mar 2010 04:33 On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:03:05 -0600, ralph <nt_consulting64(a)yahoo.net> wrote: >Also they explained how "Wend" made it as a keyword instead of "End >While" or "While End". They really didn't want to add yet another >keyword, but the alternatives just seemed *ugly* so around midnight - >"Wend" it was. Anyone remember the Zilog compiler? You used the word in reverse to terminate, e.g. IF blah-blah FI So taking it further we would have had While / Elihw, For / Txen I'm always amazed, in the case of those Zilog guys, how they managed to evade the other men in white coats for so long. MM
From: David Kerber on 5 Mar 2010 07:42 In article <9qj1p55jir8bis2jf279v01psm23eqf3pa(a)4ax.com>, kylix_is(a)yahoo.co.uk says... > > On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:03:05 -0600, ralph <nt_consulting64(a)yahoo.net> > wrote: > > >Also they explained how "Wend" made it as a keyword instead of "End > >While" or "While End". They really didn't want to add yet another > >keyword, but the alternatives just seemed *ugly* so around midnight - > >"Wend" it was. > > Anyone remember the Zilog compiler? You used the word in reverse to > terminate, e.g. > > IF blah-blah > > FI > > So taking it further we would have had While / Elihw, For / Txen and case...esac. Just like Unix/Linux shell scripting does today. D
From: Karl E. Peterson on 8 Mar 2010 18:36
ralph wrote: > On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:15:48 -0800, Karl E. Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> > wrote: > >> >> And, not to go all "snopes" on you, but I was thinking it was Wend >> because those early parsers didn't cope very well with multi-part >> keywords? <g> > > I may be hallucinating. Don't think I am, but I'm seldom a good > judge. Well, there are such things as group hallucinations, and your story definitely carries with it a whiff of plausibility and not a small pinch of familiarity too! <g> -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org |