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Yes. Today i tried again to convert some PowerBasic Functions into PureBasic.
Really missing the BYREF. If you have it you don't know how you feel if you fo not have it. If somebody is going to add new features, think of a "BYCOPY" also, as the third Option PowerBasic has (BYVAL ... BYREF ... BYCOPY ...

The compiler could transparently (internally) add ad [procedurename_] to the datasection-label. This way it could be treated as global while beeing local from standpoint of the programmer. He could use a Macro, or could always use the same Label Name in different procedures or global.

Simple example from Today.

I want to make a Procedure that gives me 3 Parameters back.
In PowerBasic i can choose with any Procedure-Parameter wether its BYVAL or its BYREF.
Surprise ... in Purebasic there is nothing like that.

I would have to define structure and possibly use and return a ...

Its not only Fred, if i take a look on my own programming, its also like that sometimes.
I start a new project, and "on the way" i find out "How i can make it better".
I believe that the same happened ro Fred also. Because:
When he started with PureBasic he did not have the same experience like he ...

Ok, let me say few things for better understanding.
I am coming from the PowerBasic Side of the Universe,
that is where the term "PB" means "PowerBasic" :lol: .

While i have my PureBasic licence for many years,
see here ... .
Still i am programming with PowerBasic a lot and know alll Bells and ...

Purebasic has made a good development lastly and a lot of progress.
However as this is the wishlist thread and not the "Praise thread", i want to express the shortcomings here.

2009 i was last time reminding that PureBasic is still
a " Stack Call based " Single-Pass Compiler. And today still this ...