A Blitz-like way to write commands

Post by **Polo** » Sat May 21, 2005 1:29 pm

Hi !
I wonder if it would be possible to have another way in writing commands (which would involve a big change in the compiler, I know...)
You know, for the moment, you can write commands like that :

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ReAllocateMemory(handle,8)

Now it would be good if we were allowed to write it also like that, with keeping the old way of course:

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ReAllocateMemory handle, 8

It's jsut a matter of preference, but it would be good if we could have both like Blitz

I know, there are some more important stuffs to do, but this thing would be cool

traumatic · Post by **traumatic** » Sat May 21, 2005 1:36 pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Post by **Polo** » Sat May 21, 2005 1:37 pm

Well, in Blitz, you can use that way of coding if you want, and if you don't want you use the standard one, I like quite a lot this way we have the choice how we wanna code, it's good !

traumatic · Post by **traumatic** » Sat May 21, 2005 1:38 pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Post by **Polo** » Sat May 21, 2005 1:40 pm

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS !!

PB · Post by PB » Sat May 21, 2005 1:48 pm

> ReAllocateMemory ( handle, 8 )
> ReAllocateMemory handle, 8

Are you serious?

Post by **Polo** » Sat May 21, 2005 1:53 pm

Of course !

PB · Post by PB » Sat May 21, 2005 1:55 pm

You're too lazy to type 2 brackets? You need another hobby, man.

Post by **Polo** » Sat May 21, 2005 1:57 pm

Where did I said that ?
I just say this could be a preference, and that sometime, it can be easier to read, maybe not for you.
But it seems that when we're doing suggestion here all we get is workaround or "why do you need this" things...

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:00 pm

here you go:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/

Post by **Polo** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:05 pm

That's what I was saying...
And that's the way a language die.

PB · Post by PB » Sat May 21, 2005 2:09 pm

> Where did I said that ?

I gave two lines of code where the ONLY difference were an opening and
closing bracket, and asked if you were serious in that you'd prefer to use
the non-bracket version... and you didn't disagree.

You also said it makes it easier to read... well quite frankly coding is not
an easy thing to do, and I honestly don't think you're cut out for it if little
things like brackets and adding a number to a command (eg. Random) is
too bothersome for you. I'm not trying to be cruel here either... so I truly
apologize in advance if you take offence to any of this.

traumatic · Post by **traumatic** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:12 pm

Polo wrote:But it seems that when we're doing suggestion here all we get is workaround or "why do you need this" things...

This is no suggestion, well, none to discuss at least.

PureBasic's syntax is the same since the beginning. You can't change that.
This is also no matter of personal preference. See, I like using // and /* */
instead of ; and I love the flexibility of C-like for-loops but that's just not the
way it is. PureBasic is PureBasic is PureBasic and if you want to change the
"basic rules" of PureBasic... well...

Apart from that, I personally hate this bracketless syntax. I can't even read it!

Post by **Polo** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:15 pm

Don't worry I don't take offence of that. Those bracket are not a problem for me, but sometime when I think at Blitz I just think it was a lot better to write Flip instead of Flip() : where's the use of the bracket here ?? Purebasic is a basic language

For the Random thing It's to get away from workaround but Fred seems to love that, so...
It's not that I'm lazy, but I enjoy helper stuffs. On my random topic the answer I got is to write the function myself

Post by **Polo** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:16 pm

traumatic wrote:
Polo wrote:But it seems that when we're doing suggestion here all we get is workaround or "why do you need this" things...
This is no suggestion, well, none to discuss at least.

PureBasic's syntax is the same since the beginning. You can't change that.
This is also no matter of personal preference. See, I like using // and /* */
instead of ; and I love the flexibility of C-like for-loops but that's just not the
way it is. PureBasic is PureBasic is PureBasic and if you want to change the
"basic rules" of PureBasic... well...

Apart from that, I personally hate this bracketless syntax. I can't even read it!

I haven't said change, i said add another way to do it.

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