[thelist] making the move from php to asp

david.landy at somerfield.co.uk david.landy at somerfield.co.uk
Fri Apr 16 09:09:56 CDT 2004


<snip>
dim myInt
myInt = rs("integerValue")

if myInt = 9 then
  do fancy stuff
end if

I can still, seemingly randomly, get a type mismatch error.
</snip>

How bizarre. Not to mention annoying. Is the field value is null?

<snip>
[1] having the same operator for assignment and comparison is dumb.
</snip>

Yes, I can see your point. If you start with C or any other language with
distinct assignment and equality operators, and then move to a language with
just one operator for both, it does seem really dumb.

On the other hand, if you grow up with Basic (ahem!), as I did, on an ITT
2020 (that's a European Apple II clone) many more years ago than I care to
remember now, it beggars belief when you start off in C that you can legally
write stuff like:

if (i = -1) {
	some code that always gets executed, regardless of the value of i
}

I guess it's just what you are used to :)

David.
 
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