Re: End is bad, mmkay?

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"Tony Spratt" <tony_spratt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > "End" was left in the language to provide what some people used to call
> > "Compatibility between different versions of a language".
> >
> > Too bad those days are gone. A lot of people wished "End" was removed
from
> > the language.... well, it has been in B#... along with just about
> everything
> > else that made VB = VB.
> >
> > --
> > Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB - http://www.vbsight.com
> > DLL Hell problems? Try ComGuard - http://www.vbsight.com/ComGuard.htm
> > Please keep all discussions in the groups..
>
> Ken,
>
> It was VB3 I picked the habit up from - I was largely self-taught in that
> and never had any training as we progressed through the versions, so
> deprecations and best practises largely passed me by. And you can imagine
> what I made of VB6 - ActiveXs, DLLs, classes, etc. Particularly as we
> flipped straight from 3 to 6 almost overnight :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tony.
>

Someone in this newsgroup quipped recently "that many VBer's are still
writing VB3 code, they just use VB6 to do it."

I crack up everything I think of it. <g>

-ralph


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