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Tutorial 5
The ByVal Keyword:
The Solution to 90 Percent of All API Problems |
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The Midnight Ride of Bugs I-Fear |
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Listen, my coders, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Bugs I-Fear.
Was late in a version of VB5:
Hardly a hacker is still alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, "If the program's harsh
And crashes and freezes and is a fright,
Hang a Jolt aloft in the office arch
Near the cubicle where you sleep at night
One if ByRef and two if ByVal;
And I, though far off, will be a pal,
With ready RAS, to the Net I'll be bound,
Through every Usenet board around,
To the other hackers, their keyboards to pound."
So through the night hacked Bugs I-Fear;
And so through the Net went his cry of alarm,
To every Usenet board he found
A cry of frustration and not of fear
A small code fragment, with fingers so sore,
And a word that shall echo forevermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Net
Through all VB knowledge, you can bet,
In the hour of darkness and peril and care,
The coders awakened to listen and hear,
"Remember the ByVal in your Declare!"
was the midnight message of Bugs I-Fear. |
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