LotusScript for Visual Basic Programmers - IBM Redbooks

Commands
DefCur A-D sets the characters A, B, C and D to be typed as currency data
types automatically. As with DefInt, subsequent reference to A through D
will be treated as currency types. Notice that character settings are case
sensitive; A-Z and a-z represent two possible sets of variables that can be
defined through these DefType statements.
Collections
Collections is a Visual Basic Release 4 addition that allows you to set up
array-like constructs; it can hold multiple types of data elements including
class-based objects that you create yourself. Collections is handy in Visual
Basic and has a number of operations (such as .Add, .Delete, etc.) that can
be performed directly against the collection, but collection processing can
be somewhat slower than processing against more traditional array
constructs.
The Visual Basic Collection keyword is not supported in LotusScript. Using
the line Dim myUsers as New Collection results in a “Class or type name
not found: COLLECTION” message. LotusScript handles collections as a
Notes class. Visual Basic collection-based code will need to be changed to
array-based logic when ported to LotusScript.
Operators
Both Visual Basic and LotusScript share the same + - / * ^\ MOD
operators, which have the same precedence. The Visual Basic XOR, AND,
NOT, OR, EQV and IMP operators are also found in LotusScript and
support bit-wise operations. Both languages provide the Like
pattern-matching operator for use on strings.
LotusScript uses most of the same syntactical statements and structures that
you will find in Visual Basic. A very short list of LotusScript supported
statements and functions includes: Fix, FreeFile, GetObject, Hour, InStr,
IsDate, Kill, LBound, Mid, Option Base, ReDim, Seek and Val. Now even
returns the system date and time in the same format as Visual Basic.
Both LotusScript and Visual Basic support multi-line statements, using the
‘_’ character to end the line, preceded by white space.
LotusScript uses the C-like %Rem...%End Rem statements to comment or
uncomment more than one contiguous line at once.
8 LotusScript for Visual Basic Programmers