A WITH command...

[Joakim Christiansen]

It's not important, but it might be handy.
Maybe something like this:

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Structure Player
  Name.s
  X.w
  Y.w
  Direction.w
EndStructure

Player1.Player

With Player1
  Name = "Player 1"
  X = 100
  Y = 100
  Direction = 90
EndWith

NewList Players.Player()

AddElement(Players())
With Players()
  Name = "Player"
  X = 100
  Y = 100
  Direction = 90
EndWith

Example of some code i'm writing right now:

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Box(Window()\X,Window()\Y,Window()\Width,Window()\Heigth,RGB(92,92,92))
Box(Window()\X+1,Window()\Y+1,Window()\Width-2,Window()\Heigth-2,RGB(148,148,148))
Box(Window()\X+2,Window()\Y+2,Window()\Width-4,16,RGB(128,128,128))

It would look much bether like this:

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With Window()
  Box(X,Y,Width,Heigth,RGB(92,92,92))
  Box(X+1,Y+1,Width-2,Heigth-2,RGB(148,148,148))
  Box(X+2,Y+2,Width-4,16,RGB(128,128,128))
EndWith

[yashaa]

I found it in other (OOP) languages, and was pretty handy...

[Fred]

It's on the todo list but will requiers the '\' before the variables:

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With Players()
  \x = aa
  \y = vv
EndWidth

[yashaa]

Right, to not confuse with normal variables... Great!

[Joakim Christiansen]

It's on the todo list but will requiers the '\' before the variables:

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With Players()
  \x = aa
  \y = vv
EndWidth

I can live with that, thanks Fred

[Polo]

Hum, just to say that the "\" character is really slow to write, that would consume time in the programming (Ok, I'm joking, but seriously I would rather have "/" or something like that )

[Blade]

Silly.
\ is already used in PB for structures, so why introduce anothe way to do the same?
Other languages uses . but I find \ pretty handy...

[PB]

> the "\" character is really slow to write

Why is it slow? It's not like you need to press Shift to type it... it's got its
own key on the keyboard... typing $ is slower because you need Shift.

[thefool]

on a danish keyboard you have to press AltGR+the button to make it
so its likely that way on other european keyboards too.

[traumatic]

It's not like you need to press Shift to type it... it's got its
own key on the keyboard...

Errm, apart from this being kinda redundant, I have to use [Alt-Gr] and [?]

EDIT: ah, thefool was (much) faster

[ColBoy]

Instead of a "\" could we not have a "." instead. This then follows the same convention as other languages and makes code a lot easier to read.

[Polo]

Instead of a "" could we not have a "." instead. This then follows the same convention as other languages and makes code a lot easier to read.

Yes, this is not a bad idea.
As thefool said, it's not that easy to type it, need to push altGr and 8 on my keyboard...

[PB]

I see... on English keyboards you just hit the "\" key alone.

[freak]

on my iBook keyboard, there is no key/key combination for this at all

Dunno what the Apple people thought here, but it just isn't there...

[Blade]

In italian kb I have the \ key
Instead, ~ is not present, and have to press ALT + 126 to obtain it.
Lukily it's not too used here