Re: End is bad, mmkay?



"Tony Spratt" <tony_spratt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "A. Ahola" <AAhola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Thanks, this was very helpful.
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>> -Amos
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> Seconded - I didn't know any of that (being largely self-taught) and now I
> can see *exactly* where some of my "memory leaks" in older apps could be
> coming from (these days I'm a good boy and tidy up properly). I always
> though that "End" was just shorthand for "tidy things up and stop the
> app".
>
> Thanks for the concise explanation.

"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.

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