Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a ...

This has the side effect of giving Visual Basic a lot of flexibility with its GoTo statements. Making a random jump into the middle of an If block is safe; you can access inner-scoped variables in ...

In Visual Basic, this name avoidance system uses a set of square brackets around the conflicting identifier: For [for] As Integer = 1 To 5. In that Visual Basic example, it doesn't matter if the ...