My personal wishlist for 2005

[traumatic]

I know some (if not all) of the following things have already been discussed here.
After all it's just _my_ personal wishlist so I'll go ahead anyway


1) More flexible structures

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StructureUnion
  Structure STRUC_A
    a.f
    b.f
    c.f
    d.f
  EndStructure
  Structure STRUC_B
    a.l
    b.l
    c.l
    d.l
  EndStructure
  Structure STRUC_C
    a.f[2]
    b.f[2]
  EndStructure
EndStructureUnion

2) Multidimensional arrays in structures

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Structure MYSTRUC
  x.l[4][2]
EndStructure

3) Short If:Else:EndIf, eg.

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ProcedureReturn var=42?true:false

4) Being able to write

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var1=var2=var3=var4=42

instead of

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var1=42 : var2=42 : var3=42 : var4=42

5) Unsigned variable types


6) doubles!


I know there are workarounds for all of these suggestions but
workarounds almost always reduce readability at a certain point.

Thanks for your attention.

[coma]

I stopped waiting for an update of the 3d engine, now I use external dlls for gfx and sound, so my wishlist is almost the same.

[GPI]

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ProcedureReturn var=42?true:false

Why Procedurereturn?

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var1=var2=var3=var4=42

Please not. Bad codedesign. Something like this is only possible, when the equal comparisation and variable set have diffrent chars.

[traumatic]

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ProcedureReturn var=42?true:false

Why Procedurereturn?

That's just meant to be an example - there're are better uses for this of course. Or did I get you wrong?

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var1=var2=var3=var4=42

Please not. Bad codedesign. Something like this is only possible, when the equal comparisation and variable set have diffrent chars.

True! (Again) I didn't think of that.
Don't panic, I won't request "==" as a comparison operator

[Dreglor]

changing syntax like that it isn't the best idea...

[traumatic]

exchange 4) by

4) MACROS

(Don't know how I forgot that )