Dim in LotusScript: Common mistake

If you need to dimension two Integer variables i and j, then in some programming languages you can do it this way:

Dim i, j As Integer

Don't do this in LotusScript, it won't work (well, it will, but not in a good way). Try the following code snippet yourself to see what Notes does here:

Dim i, j As Integer
Msgbox "Type of i: " & Typename(i) & Chr$(13) & "Type of j: " & Typename(j)

You will receive:

Notes doesn't assign a type to i (notice: NOT a bug, just different interpretation - who said you can't have misunderstandings speaking LotusScript, too ;-)). To do it correctly, you have to dimension the variables the old-fashioned way:

Dim i As Integer
Dim j As Integer

More lines of code, but safer (and actually more readable, too).