[Ohrrpgce] SVN: teeemcee/3197 fbc does not export debugging symbols for strings implicitly declared or

[Ralph Versteegen]

2009/12/18 James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 08:19:47AM -0800, subversion at HamsterRepublic.com wrote:
>> teeemcee
>> 2009-12-17 08:19:47 -0800 (Thu, 17 Dec 2009)
>> 437
>> fbc does not export debugging symbols for strings implicitly declared or with a $ suffix. Giving me some trouble, I got rather sidetracked with the larger rather than immediate problem, so I remedied it somewhat by explicitly declaring all dimmed (and static) strings 'as string'. I left function arguments alone, they weren't a problem, and complelely undeclared strings as well of course. Terribly sorry if this clashes with something.
>
> It did not conflict with anything I was doing, and I am quite pleased by
> it :)
>
> I remember when I was quite emotionally attached to the QB $ suffix
> syntax, and I still sometimes speak the $ symbol aloud as the word
> "string" (such as "The salmon dinner costs string-fourteen plus tip")
> but I am getting very comfortable with its removal.
>
> ---
> James

Hahah!
It's also taken me a few years to feel more comfortable without than
with $, but FB's buggy support for QB syntax is the killing stroke.

There were still few variables with the same name but different suffix
around - I had thought FB had dropped support for that at some point.