Re: Instr()

"dpb" <none@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:f9b23p$mr0$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
You could but it would fly in the face of every similar programming
language convention and even Standard which describe such as "intrinsics".
Fortran is one specific very parallel-structured language in which the
description/usage is actually formalized in an ISO Standard.

Does C++ actually have any intrinsic functions? It has an intrinsic for
loop, while, if etc but they are not functions? Isn't every function an
external function, hence an API?

This usage is of course paralleled by the reference to the packaged
controls such as the CommandButton, etc., as "intrinsic" controls even
though they are wrappers to an API developed for the Windows OS.

Every possible API in vb is in a library. The CommandButton is in a library
called VB and a lot of stuff is in VBA. While you can't remove these
references they are most definately references to a dll.

VB documentation itself refers to the Windows API as either the Windows or
Microsoft Windows API in all locations I find...

Of course.

Michael


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