REM Command

Tranquil · Post by **Tranquil** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:52 am

To be compatible with older basic languages like the good old C64 I would like to have a REM command.

10 For a = 0 to 255   : Rem Mainloop starts here
20 PokeB(53280,a)     : Rem Change Border Color
21 PokeB(53281,255-a) : Rem Background color
30 Next a	          : Rem Mainloop ends here

PB · Post by PB » Sat Apr 15, 2006 4:36 am

Are you serious?

chris319 · Post by **chris319** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 5:06 am

I second the request and I am serious. It's no sillier than using a semicolon for comments instead of an apostrophe. It will improve compatability and take nothing away from PB.

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:03 am

write a macro

Post by **Dare2** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:32 am

blueznl wrote:write a macro

Had the same thought, but can't think of a way that would do it. (Macros support - that is, ignore - embedded ";" comments so the obvious is out.) Any ideas? Not that I particularly want it, I'm just curious now how to do it via a macro.

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:05 am

dunno, don't use macro's, i use my own preprocessor

jack · Post by **jack** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 12:19 pm

care to share your pre-processor?

Killswitch · Post by **Killswitch** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 12:20 pm

I really don't miss REM it's much easier to use a single character for comments - although a REMSTART/REMEND system for blocks of comments would be handy.

Post by **Dare2** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 12:33 pm

Killswitch wrote:although a REMSTART/REMEND system for blocks of comments would be handy.

Yes!

Maybe ;< ;> or something!

I think Freak has many ideas for the IDE and this may be one of them (my opinion only, I haven't heard this) - but he had to draw a line somewhere so we actually got a v4 and some stuff was on the wrong side of the line.

Hopefully things like this will creep in as automatic updates or small 4.0x releases!

Tranquil · Post by **Tranquil** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:19 pm

PB wrote:Are you serious?

No. I was just joking arrount the last night. It was more an ironic feature request as I saw some C64 demos from breakpoint this weekend on demoscene.tv.

Indeed something like Remstart or Remend would be nice. but I would prefere the symbolic way and not keywords for start commenting and stopping it.

va!n · Post by **va!n** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:22 pm

nice, lol

Tranquil · Post by **Tranquil** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:27 pm

Sys 64738

Killswitch · Post by **Killswitch** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 2:28 pm

Me too Tranquil. REMSTART/REMEND wouldn't fit in with PB's command set.

chris319 · Post by **chris319** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 4:08 pm

Why reinvent the wheel?

/* block
comment
here */

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 4:45 pm

chris319 wrote:Why reinvent the wheel?

/* block
comment
here */

+1

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