Re: [Gambas-user] In Plain English- A definition of the Datatypes please?

2009-04-14 Thread Doriano Blengino
jbskaggs ha scritto: Thank you, I shall search more. One of the problems I find is that many of the terms have multiple meanings for example their meaning in mathmetics does not always equal the definition in gambas or basic and basic terms do not always match terms in other langauges so

Re: [Gambas-user] In Plain English- A definition of the Datatypes please?

2009-04-14 Thread jbskaggs
You are correct:) Thanks for your kind words. JB Doriano Blengino wrote: jbskaggs ha scritto: Thank you, I shall search more. One of the problems I find is that many of the terms have multiple meanings for example their meaning in mathmetics does not always equal the definition in

Re: [Gambas-user] In Plain English- A definition of the Datatypes please?

2009-04-13 Thread Jussi Lahtinen
Hi! For me, because of my experience, documentation of datatypes is self evident. I think you should be more precise with your question. What you don't understand? Short, integer and long are pretty much all same thing, but they can hold different maximum (and minimum [negative]) values. Short,