!!Undocumented feature of

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 01-08-93 (04:20)             Number: 380
From: SEAN EMBRY                   Refer#: NONE
  To: CORIDON HENSHAW               Recvd: NO  
Subj: !!Undocumented feature of      Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
Coridon,

Wednesday January 06 1993, Coridon Henshaw writes to Wes Garland:


 CH> I never said they where for PDS only.  I don't see a scrap of
 CH> documentation saying that you can do this anywhere.  So they are still
 CH> undocumented ;)

Microsoft QuickBasic Compiler,
Document Number: DB14510-1190
Programming in BASIC, PP 6-8 (inclusive), Esp. P. 7, para.
5, and example; documents the use of the PRINT statement
and resolving Boolean expressions;
also as an aid to debugging logical expressions: P 8, Para 7.

Also documented in PDS 7.0:
Microsoft BASIC
Programmer's Guide
"Selected Programming Topics"
Document Number: DB0114-700-R00-0390
Chapter 1, Part 1, PP 4-6, esp. P. 5, para. 2 and example.

Microsoft states that PDS 7.1, if released, would not have
new manuals, only update sheets.

And

_Logos_
PP 13-15 (inclusive), esp. below:

"Deductive logic carries from the general, to the specific.
Reasoning from the specific to the general is inductive
logic, and is subject to the "Black Swan" falicy, IE: 'This
is a Black Swan, it is a Bird, Therefore all Birds are
Black.' We know from observation that not all Birds are
Black, thus proving that inductive logic is not always
accurate."

See subject line of this message.

Sean

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