DIM x as String = ?

[boriel]

Hi everyone!

Should this work?

Code:

DIM x as String = "test"

I get the following error when I try to compile:

Code:

Initializer expression is not constant.

Doing this instead is fine:

Code:

DIM x as String: x = "test"

I'm using the latest 1.2.8s696, by the way.

This has already been answered. Strings are a different data type (Dynamic) and cannot be statically initialized (yet). But since many (ahem :roll users are asking for it, I will include this syntax in future releases (if it can be done; it's completely different to initialize a string than an scalar variable).