PureBasic 4.50 is out !

[Seymour Clufley]

I think this is a brilliant update.

4.4 was important with maps and the 2D drawing enhancements, but 4.5 is perhaps an even more important update with the new ability to have maps, lists etc. inside structures. For me this is an extremely useful ability that simplifies a lot of work, and drastically reduces memory consumption (compared to static arrays).

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Seymour.

[srod]

I agree, one of the most significant upgrades to Purebasic ever. Awesome.

Thanks team. Much appreciated.

[PrincieD]

4.4 was important with maps and the 2D drawing enhancements, but 4.5 is perhaps an even more important update with the new ability to have maps, lists etc. inside structures. For me this is an extremely useful ability that simplifies a lot of work, and drastically reduces memory consumption (compared to static arrays).

Agreed definately! I'm already using maps and lists inside structures in the latest build of ProGUI im working on.

Thanks PB team!

Chris.

[Flype]

Congratulation Fred and Freak for this - must have - release.

All the new stuff is terrific and increase the interest of this language.

It's very pleasant to re-code some old programs cleaner thanks to the new features.

[akee]

Hi! Out of programming habit with VBScript, I discovered this...

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Procedure LOGICAL(a, b)
  ProcedureReturn a = b
EndProcedure

delta = Not LOGICAL(1, 1)

Debug delta

PB Sample produces an error.

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Function LOGICAL(a, b)
  LOGICAL = a = b
End Function


delta = Not LOGICAL(1, 1)

WScript.Echo delta

VBScript does not.

[blueznl]

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Procedure LOGICAL(a, b)
  ProcedureReturn a = b
EndProcedure

delta = Not LOGICAL(1, 1)

Debug delta

Dunno, but that is entirely unsensible code so I'll forgive PureBasic for throwing an answer

Let's start by turning this line

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ProcedureReturn a = b

into

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ProcedureReturn b

Then NOT is a keyword only used in combination with conditions, such as IF. PB doesn't do boleans, only ints and floats. Your procedure returns an integer, and how can one invert an integer? One cannot. Well, perhaps you could do something like this:

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Procedure LOGICAL(a, b)
  ProcedureReturn b
EndProcedure

delta = 0-LOGICAL(1, 1)

Debug delta

Better post this in the questions section next time I guess

[Melissa]

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Procedure LOGICAL(a, b)
  ProcedureReturn b
EndProcedure

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Procedure LOGICAL(a, b)
if a = b : ProcedureReturn #True : EndIf
EndProcedure

delta = (Not LOGICAL(1, 1))

Debug delta

...Simple as that.

[blueznl]

True, but what I wanted to show is that you should not use a = b as a procedure return value. People should stop asking if the following works:

a = (a = b )

BECAUSE IT DOESN'T.

It's everywhere, in the docs, in the FAQ, even in my pathethic survival guide. I'm tempted to suggest to Fred to put a new feature in: whenever the demo or the normal version of PureBasic is started for the very first time, it should load a demo program that goes something like this:

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  ; please examine this example code carefully
  ; 
  ; a = (a = b )  ; <== THIS DOES NOT WORK. NO. IT DOESN'T. IT WON'T. IT WILL NOT BE SUPPORTED.
  ;
  ; please read the manual or visit the forum

I don't mind questions, no matter how dumb, but this one is so all over the place that it's frankly a little annoying.
Pfff.

I think I had a bad day

[GWarner]

Maybe using the equal sign for two different purposes isn't such a good idea.

C and PHP solves the problem by using "=" as the assignment operator and "==" as the comparison operator.
Pascal solves the problem by using := as the assignment operator and = as the comparison operator.

Both remove the ambiguity about what the = is supposed to do.

[nase09]

Maybe using the equal sign for two different purposes isn't such a good idea.
C and PHP solves the problem by using "=" as the assignment operator and "==" as the comparison operator.
Pascal solves the problem by using := as the assignment operator and = as the comparison operator.
Both remove the ambiguity about what the = is supposed to do.

but Purebasic is Basic, so it would be a bad idea to use e.g. Pascal or C syntax..

[Mr Coder]

but Purebasic is Basic, so it would be a bad idea to use e.g. Pascal or C syntax..

So true! Too many people here forget that, and want PureBasic to be something other than Basic. :roll:

[mk-soft]

a small assistance without a warranty for future versions

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Macro BOOL(assert)
  ((assert) Or #False)
EndMacro

Procedure foo1(a,b)
  
  ProcedureReturn bool(a > b)
  
EndProcedure

Procedure foo2(a,b)
  
  ProcedureReturn bool(a < b)
  
EndProcedure

c = foo1(a,b)
Debug c

c = foo2(a,b)
Debug c

Show asm output

P.S. Also computations can be implemented

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Macro BOOL(assert)
  ((assert) Or #False)
EndMacro

For i = 1 To 10
  c = i * 10 * bool(i >= 5)
  Debug c
Next

[GWarner]

I know that PureBasic is BASIC, nor am I suggesting that it should use C or Pascal syntax, if you had really read my message you would have seen that.

I'm just suggesting that using the same operator for two completely different purposes isn't such a good idea. The designers of C and Pascal apparently didn't think it was a good idea either.

Since this is dragging this thread way off topic, I'll stop here.

[Frarth]

I entirely agree with blueznl. People migrating from (Visual) BASIC are VERY used to boolean expressions as return values or as part of formulas.

With PureBasic working with boolean expressions is still very confusing. For example, this works:

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Procedure.i LeapYear(Year.i)
  ;returns:
  ;  - True (1) If the given year is a leapyear
  ;  - False (0) if the given year is not a leapyear
  ProcedureReturn ((Year % 4) = 0) And ((Year % 100) <> 0) Or ((Year % 400) = 0)
EndProcedure

Debug LeapYear(2008)
Debug LeapYear(2009)

Yet, this simple one does not work:

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Procedure Equal(a.i, b.i)
  ProcedureReturn (a = b)
EndProcedure

Debug Equal(1, 2) ;should return 0 (#False), but returns 2 instead.

IMHO people new to PureBasic should be thoroughly informed about this!

[Thorium]

I read somewhere on the forum that boolean expressions are planed. So we will see how they solve the = issue. ^^

@Frarth: It's not confusing, because they are not supported outsite of if statements. So you should not use them in formulas at all. It's planed and i hope it will come, but it's not just yet supported.

Anyway a compiler error message would be nice.