Why is it called a single in VB.net? I’m sure there is a good reason but it doesn’t seem intuitive to a non formally trained programmer like me.
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Why is it called a single in VB.net? I’m sure there is a good reason but it doesn’t seem intuitive to a non formally trained programmer like me.
BPAndrew’s question seems to be really ‘why float in C# and Single in VB.NET’, which noone actually answered, so here’s my 2p…
The use of ‘float’ in C# seems to be a throwback to its C/C++ heritage. ‘float’ still maps to the System.Single type in C#, so the keyword just exists for convenience. You could just as well declare the variable as ‘Single’ in C# the same as you do in VB.NET.
(And as stated above, naming them Single/Double actually makes more sense as they are single/double precision floating-point numbers.)