9) Which of these statements is syntactically legal? Why? (a) Const Z = -+-+-+-10 (b) Const Y = 2 + 2 (c) Const X = .1e310 (d) Dim W(+10) (a) is legal. The rest are illegal. (a) is legal because you can put as many unary positive or negative operators...

8) Which of these programs is syntactically legal? (a) Class Bar Function Foo End Function Function Foo End Function End Class (b) Class Bar If Blah Then Function Foo End Function Else Function Foo End Function End If End Class (c) If Blah Then Function...

Before I get into today's entry, a brief editorial comment: Pestilence is a frickin' pain in the rear . Famine was no problem at all, Rodney didn't touch me once, and Master Kaen fell to my powerful fists, but two Amulets of Life Saving, one Wand of Death...

This question was designed to highlight some of the oddities in VBScript's rules for what makes a legal identifier. 6) Which of the following are syntactically legal? Why? (a) Explicit Error (b) For[i=1]=[To[1]To[1] (c) For i =.For To Step Step Step ...

5) Which of the following statements are guaranteed to never print False ? Assume that On Error Resume Next is in effect. (a) If x = x Then Print True Else Print False (b) If CStr(x) = CStr(x) Then Print True Else Print False (c) If True Or x Then Print...

Last night I gave away more copies of my book at our Visual Studio Tools for Office developer lab, but this time I made the trivia questions a whole lot easier. I played five rounds of "Odd Man Out" -- you know, like from Sesame Street. One of these things...

Co-Winner Nicholas Allen's prize is en route to his home now. Steven Bone, I need your mailing address still. Before I give the answer to #3, a quick note. NTBUGTRAQ is reporting a memory leak in the VBScript regular expression parsing code. I took a...