LotusScript for Visual Basic Programmers - IBM Redbooks

When you enter structured programming statements such as For, While,
Do, Select Case, etc., the script editor automatically does the following:
Inserts the corresponding ending statement (for example, Loop for the
Do statement) below the statement you typed.
Inserts a blank line between the two statements, with the cursor being
placed on that line so you can continue to type your code.
Automatically indents the statements within the construct.
The following figure shows the state of the script editor after you type the
opening statement of a Do loop:
When the ENTER key is pressed, the script editor window changes as shown
in the following figure:
LotusScript is not case sensitive, except for text constants. Thus the constant
“Text” is not the same as the constant “text.” It does not matter, then, if you
sometimes refer to a variable using upper case, and at other times use lower
case; LotusScript will consider both to refer to the same variable. However,
it is advisable that you develop a consistent naming convention and then
stick to it. For example, you may have all constants start with an upper case
letter, and all variables with lower case letters. LotusScript allows names
(for constants, variables, etc.) to have up to 40 characters, so do not skimp
on letters when naming your variables. Although a variable name such as
employee_pay_rate, or employeePayRate, is harder to type than p, it is a lot
more meaningful when you or someone else is trying to modify the code at
a later date. By the way, long names do not slow down execution of
LotusScript because all names are transformed by the compilation process
into relative memory addresses.
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