Dim Shared v's Parameters & Arguments

[TempodiBasic]

Hi Pete
I like your red hair
BUT... you have posted a demo of DIM SHARED and not about SHARED!
this one is a demo of SHARED!

Code: QB64: [Select]

1. TYPE democrat
2.     dumb AS STRING
3. END TYPE
4.  
5. DIM dimwit AS democrat
6.  
7. dimwit.dumb = "All Democrats are idiots.": CALL idiots
8. idiots2
9.  
10. SUB idiots
11.     PRINT dimwit.dumb
12. END SUB
13.  
14. SUB idiots2
15.     SHARED dimwit AS democrat
16.     PRINT dimwit.dumb
17. END SUB
18.  
19.  

And Thanks, with your modded demo I have learnt that it is possible to declare a variable that includes a point in its name! In Idiots dimwit.dumb is a single type of variable with a point in its name!

[SMcNeill]

Isn't a period a valid character in a variable anyway?

DIM x.a AS INTEGER, x.b AS LONG

[TempodiBasic]

Yes Steve
in fact I have said

I have learnt that it is possible to declare a variable that includes a point in its name

for the simple reason that I have always used the character period only when I have typed an UDT. But this is an my habit that let me think that period is invalid for normal name of variable, so now I have learnt this new possibility in writing a name of variable.

[Pete]

I'm glad it shed some light on something new for you... It just goes to show us all that Democrats are, indeed, useful idiots.

Pete :D

Trump 2020, and beyond!