What does DIM stand for?

[Guest]

Here's a simple question: what does DIM stand for? I know it is used to
define things, but would like to know what the letters stand for.

Thank you,
Kelvin

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

Here's a simple question: what does DIM stand for? I know it is used
to define things, but would like to know what the letters stand for.

In old Basic, it was short for "Dimension", because it was only used to
declare the dimensions of arrays.

 

[Allen Browne]

Dimension. As in "set aside memory space for this variable."

 

[David C. Holley]

DIMension