equivalent of PB Variant data type

[Chris Chancellor]

Hello Charles,
In PB there is a Variant Data type which is very flexible,  does O2 has an equivalent data type

i found nothing related to this data type in the Oxygen_help.htm

see http://manmrk.net/tutorials/basic/PowerBASIC/pbcc/variant_data_types.htm

[Charles Pegge]

Hi Chris,

Variants are part of Microsofts OLE COM/automation system. They ar really intended for scripting languages, which cannot handle native variable types directly. O2 does not have variants as a core type, but is quite good at automatically converting variables where necessary, including string<->number conversions.

[Chris Chancellor]

That's good to know, thanxx

that's why O2 is so flexible, the auto conversions are genius features