Re: Instr()

"Mike Williams" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

Quite simply that is wrong mike. As usual totally and utterly. The KPD team
and others have simply dropped the "Win32" off the term Win32API for
brevity. They would *never* claim the term API simply means the windows API.
An API is a programming interface of some sort and does in fact mean any
function called for the purpose of programming. There is nothing about an
inbuilt function that is that different that would exclude from being
included in the term API. If you actually stop and think for a sec (a
stretch for you I know) and have a look at the three words Application,
Programming and Interface there is nothing at all there to say it excludes
some functions based on some criteria. You could easily call the inbuilt VB
functions the VB API.

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.

If that makes you feel better....

Michael


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