Option Compatible Statement

Option Compatible extends Collabora Office Basic compiler and runtime, allowing supplemental language constructs to Basic.

Ця інструкція повинна передувати виконуваному програмному коду модуля.

This option may affect or assist in the following situations:

• Allow special characters as identifiers. all characters that are defined as letter in the Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) character set, are accepted as part of identifiers.

• Create VBA constants including non-printable characters.

• Allow the New operator to be optional in Dim statements.

• Allow default values for optional parameters in procedures.

• Use named arguments when multiple optional parameters exist.

• Preload of Collabora Office Basic libraries

Option Compatible is required when coding class modules.

Option Compatible

Special characters as identifiers

Option Compatible
' With this option the code works, otherwise it causes a compiling error
Sub Main
    ä = 10
    print ä
End Sub

Statement Option VBAsupport 1 implies Option Compatible statement automatically.