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Step (expression) is definitely a must have. I will try to implement it for the next version. Forget the DowTo stuff, I should be drunk

most basics i know simply use step with vars, i'd say keep it simple

Fred wrote:...I should be drunk

oh.. shouldn't we all!!!

LarsG wrote:

fred wrote:...I should be drunk

oh.. shouldn't we all!!!

Pass the bottle.

Mmmmh, Fred; should be possible to improve a "for-next" loop just identical like is in C

Well, i don't say to replace the existing one, but to improve (add) a new for-next alternative. I thing this is perhaps the best point of C's power, besides of pointers, etc.

For <assignment[,assignment[,...]]>,<(expression)>,<instruction[,instruction[,...]]>
;code
Next

PB would continue being a BASIC.

Psychophanta wrote:Mmmmh, Fred; should be possible to improve a "for-next" loop just identical like is in C

For <assignment[,assignment[,...]]>,<(expression)>,<instruction[,instruction[,...]]>
;code
Next

but this is not much sense (at least to me) i know a bit of c
this can be done extremly easy with while loop

<assignment[,assignment[,...]]>
while <(expression)>
...
<instruction[,instruction[,...]]>
wend

(in c the while is a useless command its fuctionality can be done with for)

sorry, fred, synchronous posting

but ehm.. while useless in c++? readability...

Plouf wrote:

(in c the while is a useless command its fuctionality can be done with for)

That's absolutely true.
And if PB include a For-Next loop as i suggested, then While-Wend should be useless in PB too

blueznl wrote:

but ehm.. while useless in c++? readability...

Readability? In C ? Are you joking? Isn't preferable ASM for readability ?

Readability? In C ? Are you joking? Isn't preferable ASM for readability ?

hehe.
Also the General Theory of Relativity.

Yeah! that astrophysic theory is cleverly posted here
All is inside astrophysics, including all of us...

Despite of the problem initially mentioned I nevertheless vote for having a FOR ... DOWNTO language element within PB. This is because there often are also additional tests inside a FOR ... NEXT loop against the final barrier. Thus it would help and probably speed up, if that could be done against a zero value, which often is the natural loop bottom boundary.