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You can, but it's not a good idea as it becomes hard to differentiate in certain parts of your code if you omit the parentheses in some statements, making the code harder to maintain. For example:
Code:
#DIM ALL
FUNCTION PBMAIN
LOCAL D$(), D$
DIM D$(1:100)
D$ = "123"
ERASE D$ ' this means the array, but is not clear!
ERASE D$() ' this is clearer, but not compulsory
...
END FUNCTION
Personally, I try to aviod single letter variable names, except I do use them for "scratch", temporary and loop counter variables. Otherwise I try to use descriptive names - there is no run-time penalty whatsoever on using very long variable names (there is just more typing!).
Thanks.
This is a 'cleaning-operation' and I just wanted to make sure.
Obvously there are a difference between declared and not declared variables.
Undeclared variables can have same name, ie
MyVariable&,MyVariable$
but declaring them is not allowed: ie
Local MyVariable&,MyVariable$
Yes, two *scalar* variables cannot share a common "base" name if you are using #DIM ALL or OPTION EXPLICIT, as the compiler will complain about the duplicate definition.
However, your initial question was about a common base name bewteen a scalar and an array which is allowed.
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