[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Musing about _konstants

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From: Ted Spencer <tedspencer@...>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:48:48 -0500
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 05:49  PM, Alain Pastor wrote:
>
> You're right. Maybe it's a compatibility issue with old FBII code. I 
> suppose that because those values are bitmaks, FBII assumed that the 
> programmer would use the constant names with the % symbol, but I admit 
> I don't know for sure.

Further to that, BIT 3 will turn ANY integer into something with a 
value of 8, or, more precisely, BIT3 = 8.
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Ted Spencer
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