Shortening a Macro with a Macro = Linefeed

[Kurzer]

Hello,

I try to shorten a code by using macros. And I als otry to shorten the Macro keyword itselb by a Marco:

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Macro M(a,b):Macro a:b:EndMacro
;M(C,"world"):EndMacro
Macro C:"world":EndMacro
	
sText.s = "Hello " + C
MessageRequester("", sText)

Apart from the fact that I was able to also shorten the EndMacro keyword with older PurBasic versions, which doesn't work anymore with the current PureBasic version, I now have the problem that a shortened macro keyword works, but apparently creates a superfluous linefeed.

To illustrate what I mean, please run the example code. Then comment the 3. Line, uncomment the 2. line and run the code again. Now you see a linefeed was generated between "Hello" + and the Macro C which breaks the code.

I think this is a bug, what do you think?

Regards, Kurzer

PS: In older Versions of PB this cheat was possible to reduce source code size:

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Macro M(a,b):Macro a:b:EndMacr:EndMacro
M(H,"Hello world")o
Debug H

[#NULL]

Actually the code shown in the syntax error popup window is valid code:

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sText.s = "Hello " + 
"world"

So I think the syntax error is not the linebreak.
If you transform

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Macro M(a,b):Macro a:b:EndMacro
M(C,"world"):EndMacro
;Macro C:"world":EndMacro
   
sText.s = "Hello " + C
MessageRequester("", sText)

into

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Macro M(a,b)
  Macro a
    b
  EndMacro
  M(C,"world")
EndMacro
;Macro C:"world":EndMacro
   
sText.s = "Hello " + C
MessageRequester("", sText)

by adding linebreaks then it works(?). Is that what you mean? That line concatenation via : (colon) does not work? I just wonder why macro C is defined at all because M is not evoked outside its own definition in the first place. Maybe it just works by accident and there is no real nesting of macro definitions.

[#NULL]

If you evoke M outside of M to define C then you get syntax error at second EndMacro which looks like nested macros are not expected (supported).

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Macro M(a,b)
  Macro a
    b
  EndMacro
EndMacro
;Macro C:"world":EndMacro
M(C,"world")
sText.s = "Hello " + C
MessageRequester("", sText)

[Kurzer]

Nice find, #NULL.

Even this version works:

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Macro M(a,b):Macro a
b:EndMacro: M(C,"world"):EndMacro
sText.s = "Hello " + C:MessageRequester("", sText)

So the problem only occours, if we have a colon (:) between the Macro parameters 'a' and 'b' in the Macro definition.

It also gets very confusing if you append the last line with a colon to the line before the last line.

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Macro M(a,b):Macro a
b:EndMacro: M(C,"world"):EndMacro: sText.s = "Hello " + C:MessageRequester("", sText)

The code will be compiled, but the MessageRequester will now show "Hello 0" instead of "Hello World". - crazy!!!

I think this problem was intoduced while implementing the modules in PureBasic, because of the '::' concatenator.
The IDE have to handle with the '::' and I think this leads to the problems descibed in this thread.

In summary, I'd say the weird 'Macro behavior' is a bug. What do the other user think?

Btw: This has never worked before:

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Makro M (a, b) 
  Makro a 
    b 
  EndMacro 
EndMacro 
; Makro C: "Welt": EndMacro 
M (C, "Welt") 
sText.s = "Hallo" + C 
MessageRequester ("", sText)

One have to remove at least the o from EndMarco within the Macro definition.