A nice little feature i have seen in other languages...

[Hydrate]

Well, i saw this article on digg:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html

I have been thinking, would it not be extreemly useful to be able to simply replace the name of a procedure your calling with a variable, for example:


procedure Name(Procname$,x,y)
if blah=0
Procname$(blah,
elseif blah=1
Procname$(blah, 2)
else
endif
endprocedure

Can this be done, or can it be implimented?

[Fred]

I don't think so as PB is a compiled langage, it would need to have a lookup table to be able to do that which will kill the speed of the function call. And even, it looks like it's really tricky to read and maintain.

[Kale]

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=10973

[freak]

Prototypes are the way to go here.

[Psychophanta]

Prototypes are the way to go here.

Yeeah!

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Prototype Proc(a,b)
Procedure c(b,z)
  Debug b
  Debug z
EndProcedure

Procedure Name(Procname.Proc,x,y)
  Procname=@c()
  If blah=0
    Procname(blah, 8)
  ElseIf blah=1
    Procname(blah, 2)
  Else
  EndIf
EndProcedure

Name(0,0,0)

[Hydrate]

Prototypes are the way to go here.

Yeeah!

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Prototype Proc(a,b)
Procedure c(b,z)
  Debug b
  Debug z
EndProcedure

Procedure Name(Procname.Proc,x,y)
  Procname=@c()
  If blah=0
    Procname(blah, 8)
  ElseIf blah=1
    Procname(blah, 2)
  Else
  EndIf
EndProcedure

Name(0,0,0)

Ah, thank you very much, i was wondering about this

[theNerd]

I read Joel's article about that just this week. If's funny that he used an interpretted language like Javascript as an example instead of a real compiler.