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Nice to know, that somebody else uses vim for pb; i posted a syntax file quite some time ago at vim org (where it is still avaliable) and also mentioned it here, but since neither a vote there nor any feedback arrived, I didn't dare to upload the version containing the keywords missed the first time ...

The non-English characters should be easy to fix: add an encoding="ISO-8859-1" attribute to the XML tag.

If generating HTML text-like stuff, I recommend using the <xsl:text> tag; of course one has to quote it, so &nbsp; will transform to &nbsp; but it should work and is only ugly, not difficult.

Short circuit evaluation is a good thing. It means you don't need to evaluate both sides of a logical expression to get the result. Therefore if you have a simple comparison logically combined with an evil complex one, you're best putting the simple one on the left because it may mean you can ...

Yes - thanks... It's just what I'm doing right now... But if you want very small number it is a lot of typing. For example... If you want a random number between 0.006 and 0.008.

Debug ((Random(1000) *0.002)/1000 + 0.006)

Have you considered to write a function for it :wink:? I would hate to ...

@GPI, @GedB, @Dare2: Let me join the club! :D
votes for: Step (expression)

And puts in a plug for SGN and NOT

:)
I couldn't have summarized it better. A new keyword just for blurring the sign of the step width seems overkill. TOWARDS is a very naturally sounding suggestion, but since AUTOSTEP ...

i consider for / next to be something simple and quick to create loops, i'd go for while / wend for anything more complex
In the extreme you could substitute all loops by if and goto :wink:. Striving for a code reflecting the problem it's out of question, that the purpose of a for loop is building ...

The ugly aspect of AUTOSTEP is, that it adds a keyword for a single scenario. (It wouldn't work at all in Pascal where TO a DOWNTO are distinct keywords.) Typically the problem is solved with the arithmetic sign function available as SGN in ancient BASICs.

Given that this function is missing in PB ...

A couple of reasons. You write to the ram disk, and people can still see the sources. Ive already thought of that :) Right now, it spits out my custom code into a pb file before compile, and run the code with the user's code through the compiler, and then deletes the custom code. This is a huge ...

Yes, could be...
...but While ... Wend Loops are a standard in programming languages. Why force the advanced user to learn a new commandname? In the end it's an aliteration, W hile W end, that alone is worth keeping it the way it is ;-)
Of course its an alliteration, but its the only one to be ...

This is only for symmetry and consistency reasons, but given Interface / EndInterface, Procedure / EndProcedure, Enumeration / EndEnumeration etc I consider EndWhile much nicer than WEnd which in turn reflects the meaning still a notch better than Wend...

While of course having a resident file containing all that stuff is a solution, the example in a previous reply already showed, that the control character is not the final destination but an intermediate one like in

"text1" + #CR + "text2"

There is also not much advantage of looking up a value in ...

While I found a vage announcement for such a file, I couldn't find the real thing. Since standard basic syntax looks awful (treating all constants and everything to end of line as somethig else) I did it myself and uploaded it to http://www.vim.org. Greetings

Wouldn't that make a mess of bug hunting?!?
I mean.. then the error could point to 30 lines below the actual equation (coz that's where the next parenthesis is)?!?


Actually it's not so much of a problem, because something has to fill these 30 lines. Any <b>statement</b> (like: if, repeat) is ...

I tuned in late, but it seems the discussion is bypassing the most important points.
- It's quite academic to think about dividing keywords
- a continuation character is a kludge, a very low level solution, which may be the simplest to implement but has no other advantages.
- long lines are easily ...