Does Purebasic supports multiline programming?

SkyManager · Post by **SkyManager** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:18 am

Does Purebasic supports multiline programming

For example,
str1 + str2 + str3 + . . . . . .

Is it possible to be :
str1 + str2 \
str3 + str4 \
str5 + . . . . . . . . .

netmaestro · Post by **netmaestro** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:13 am

Not at this time, but possibly in future. It's been discussed.

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:08 am

there is a preparser by Little John released in the german forum
http://www.purebasic.fr/german/viewtopic.php?t=10350

if you need help with usage, feel free to ask in that topic in english.

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:24 pm

I don't see the benefit, BUT I admit I am ignorant... What would be the benefit of multiline programming? It looks (from that small example) like looser control of variables.

Shooting my mouth off again, thats me!

Bonne_den_kule · Post by **Bonne_den_kule** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:33 pm

This is one more reason to buy a widescreen LCD

(I have an 22" widescreen at home)

SkyManager · Post by **SkyManager** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:48 pm

When too many coding within one single line, particularly when some codes are off-screen, the errors will not be seen easily.

u9 · Post by u9 » Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:23 am

Rook Zimbabwe wrote:I don't see the benefit, BUT I admit I am ignorant...

Yeah you probably are... but that seems to be a virtue of many people on this forum. I think many of these people only damage PB's user base. But enough of my political statement.

The advantage of being able to split up a line is especially apparent when the line becomes wider then the width of the screen. E.g. complex if-statements can be made more readable with more control over source code layout.

SkyManager · Post by **SkyManager** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:15 am

Anyway, the main job of IDE and the main purpose of a good language is to help programmers to de-bug their software.

Splitting a long line of code is certainly helpful in debugging softwares

Pantcho!! · Post by **Pantcho!!** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:29 am

Benefit?
for example programming CGI embedding html inside purebasic
It sucks to have the html added in 1 line or add a closing " to each line.

like PHP is used.

this will help a lot.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:09 am

u9 wrote:
Rook Zimbabwe wrote:I don't see the benefit, BUT I admit I am ignorant...
Yeah you probably are... but that seems to be a virtue of many people on this forum. I think many of these people only damage PB's user base. But enough of my political statement.

The advantage of being able to split up a line is especially apparent when the line becomes wider then the width of the screen. E.g. complex if-statements can be made more readable with more control over source code layout.

I think overly rude people damage PB's user base as well but that's just my opinion.

Anyway that would indeed be a complex IF statement if it were that long, perhaps you should be looking at shorter variable names.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:22 pm

It's for things like this:

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MainWindow = OpenWindow(#PB_Any, 100, 100, 512, 384, "My Window Title", #PB_Window_Invisible | #PB_Window_Maximize | #PB_Window_MaximizeGadget | #PB_Window_MinimizeGadget | #PB_Window_SizeGadget | #PB_Window_SystemMenu)

PB · Post by PB » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:28 pm

And for things like this:

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a$=RegistryReadString(#HKEY_CURRENT_USER,"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RecentDocs\.txt","MRUListEx")

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MyLIG.l=ListIconGadget(#MyListIconGadget, 5, 32, 200, 164, "Title", 0, #PB_ListIcon_GridLines | #PB_ListIcon_FullRowSelect | #PB_ListIcon_MultiSelect | #PB_ListIcon_AlwaysShowSelection)

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:31 pm

Not to speak of if you get the position and state of the window from the registry!

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:34 pm

O.k. I stand corrected.

Still think u9 was a bit off though.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:02 pm

It would clean up this:

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Out("sprite(" + \Name + ", " + Str(Value) + ", " + Str(\Width) + ", " + Str(\Height) + ", " + Str(\Left) + ", " + Str(\Right) + ", " + Str(\Bottom) + ", " + Str(\Top) + ", " + Str(\Transparent) + ", " + Str(\Smooth) + ", " + Str(\Preload) + ", " + Str(\BoundingBox) + ", " + Str(\Precise) + ", " + Str(\Origin\X) + ", " + Str(\Origin\Y) + ", " + Str(\SubimageCount) + ")")