[Implemented] Modulo

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:27 pm

i was not refering to the chained hasselhof but to the code that's brewing!

Post by **Dare2** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:47 pm

chris319 · Post by **chris319** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:58 pm

I also want ^ instead of Pow and Mod instead of %

And this is totally illogical, when you think on it. First swap a symbol for a keyword - but then swap a keyword for a symbol. We are so patterned!

I hate to bring up something as silly as a standard, but the ANSI/ISO standard for the BASIC programming language specifies ^ for exponentiation and MOD for modulo, so your wishes are not totally capricious. I second your vote for ^ and MOD.

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 1:29 pm

well purebasic is not the first basic dialect to use % for modulo, so that one is not an issue, but the ^ is indeed missing... and standards... it's pure, not standardbasic

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:54 pm

It's much faster to compile with single-character tokens (like%).

Post by **Fred** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:05 pm

In PB you have a logic:

- non ascii characters for binary operands: +, !, *, <<, % ...
- full letter keyword for logical operands: And, Or, XOr, possibly Not as well

.

It's not planned to be changed at all.

akee · Post by **akee** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:07 pm

Yes! I support the NOT operator...

PB feels naked without it... :p

chris319 · Post by **chris319** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:04 pm

In PB you have a logic:

- non ascii characters for binary operands: +, !, *, <<, % ...
- full letter keyword for logical operands: And, Or, XOr, possibly Not as well

Pow?

Post by **Fred** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:35 pm

Pow() is a command, like Abs(). It's not a purebasic operand.

chris319 · Post by **chris319** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:26 pm

Fred wrote:Pow() is a command, like Abs(). It's not a purebasic operand.

So if PB had a function Add(), it would be considered a command and not an operand.

Flype · Post by **Flype** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:42 pm

i'm just dreaming: the IN statement

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If "test" In "this is a test" : Endif

Dim myArray.b(10)

For i=0 to 10
    myArray(i)=Random(255)
Next

If 129 In myArray() : Endif

and so on...

Post by **Fred** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:17 pm

chris319 wrote:So if PB had a function Add(), it would be considered a command and not an operand.

Exactly.

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:07 am

is't that 'function' instead of command?

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:50 am

Flype wrote:i'm just dreaming: the IN statement
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If "test" In "this is a test" : Endif

Dim myArray.b(10)

For i=0 to 10
    myArray(i)=Random(255)
Next

If 129 In myArray() : Endif
and so on...

It will surely be used more than strictly neccessary, and that´s not good because it´s very slow.

MikeB · Post by **MikeB** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:00 pm

I'm not quite sure what this is supposed to do

If "test" In "this is a test" : Endif

Dim myArray.b(10)

For i=0 to 10
myArray(i)=Random(255)
Next

If 129 In myArray() : Endif

Surely everything there will always take place as there is nothing happening between the If xxx and the EndIf in either case.