The error subtype is seldom used. However, there's a remote chance that you might end up coming across a component or function that uses the Error subtype to indicate that an error occurred in the function. I am not necessarily endorsing this methodology, but what you might encounter is a function that returns a Variant value that will either contain the result of the function, or an error number. Let's say its a fictional function called GetAge ( ) that returns a person's age in years. This function would take a date as a parameter, and return to you the person's age, based on the computer's current system date. If an error occurred in the function, then the return value would instead contain an error number indicating what went wrong. Ponder on the fictional example given in the next post.
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