Re: TIB: Test variable size, PassErr

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Subject: Re: TIB: Test variable size, PassErr
From: The Garth Johnson <gbjohnson@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 21:33:52 -0800 (PST)
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i can answer the floor/int thing.   Int is kept for compatibility with
older programs.  floor is there because of the ceiling command.

---House <thouse@tk7.net> wrote:
>
> Is there any way to test the size of a variable?  Like when you're
on the Var-Link screen and it shows you how many bytes the variable
actually uses (I don't mean like dim() or anything).  How does PassErr
work?  If floor() is identical to int(), then why did they put both of
them in?

==

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