"John Fouhy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(I don't want to criticise VB programmers because I am not one.
"Follow the local conventions" is generally always a good rule of
programming)
I think this is a key point. I'm no VB expert but I do have
to read it from time to time.
VB programmers tend to set to null more often than Python
programmers because their variables are not typeless.
In VB Set is explicitly used for setting variables to object
references (as opposed to Let which is (optionally) used
to set variables to non-object values(int, string etc).
ie
Set myvar = New MyObject
is like Python doing
myvar = MyObject()
and is different to
Let X = myvalue
which in turn is usually written more simply as
X = myvalue
In Python we do not distinguish. Because of the specific
nature of Set it seems to me that VB programmers treat
explicitly freeing object references rather like we would
treat closure of files. Most of the time you can get away
with not doing it but its safer if you do. So while you do see
Set myobj = Nothing
You almost never see
Let X = Nothing
In fact it's possibly not even valid syntax!
Alan G.
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