DEFAULT

Syntax

DEFAULT (expression, default_value)

Location

BTool

The function DEFAULT usually simply returns the result of the given expression, unless the expression contains undefined variables or does not produce a floating point number. In either of these latter cases DEFAULT will return the given default_value.

Example

WRITE simply PRINTs a text to a given channel. If the channel ch was not a valid number for any reason then #1 is used:

100 DEFine PROCedure WRITE (ch, text$)
110 ch = DEFAULT(ch, 1)
120 PRINT#ch,text$
130 END DEFine WRITE

CROSS-REFERECE

TYPE. DEFAULT$ and DEFAULT% work exactly like DEFAULT for string and integer expressions.