Re: Instr()

"Michael C" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OiN6O3T2HHA.5380@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

There's no question that API does NOT mean simply the win32 api.
This is a definition adopted by the VB community long after the term
was created. I'm hardly about to start writing to websites about it tho.

Well naturally, because you don't know what you are talking about. But actually, there IS a question about it! You are of course entitled to your own personal opinion, but since nobody owns the rights to the phrase "Application Programming Interface" or to the acronym "API" then nobody can tell us with any authority what it is supposed to mean. Each to his own. However, along with the KPD team and lots of other respectable programming web sites, and along with what I suspect is the majority of others, I shall continue to interpret it (as far as Windows programming is concerned) as meaning the set of "API" functions that is provided by the Windows operating system and I shall interpret it as excluding the various VB6 (or other language) "built in" native functions.You, of course, are at liberty to interpret in any way you wish and since you have for some time now gained a reputation for yourself as being a bit of a troll on this group I am sure you will continue to argue your point, even after you have been proven wrong. You are just a troll, Michael, as has been evidenced on a large number of occasions in a large number of threads in recent months. If you really like being a troll then why don't you just go and guard a bridge somewhere, and leave the programming newsgroups to people who are interested in programming.

Mike



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