thinBasic 1.9.xx vaporware

[ErosOlmi]

and "object" as alias of "type" ?

I think I have other ideas for "object" keyword.
It is regarding native COM handling.
But it's too premature at the moment to talk about that

[Petr Schreiber]

I love how ThinBASIC exposes SelectExpression for Select statement.

It would be great to follow this innovative pattern, and have Iteration available inside Foreach.

Imagine this:

long items(5)
for each item in items
  item = 2 ^ Iteration
next

' -- Now array contains 2, 4, 8, 16, 32

We could expand further and add IterationBegins and IterationEnds. Useful in cases like:

long items(5) = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
string myText
for each item in items
  myText += item + iif$(not IterationEnds, ",", "")
next

' Produces: myText = "1,2,3,4,5"

The Iteration* helpers would always reflect the current nesting level, so it would work even for nested cycles.

(this would be handy for classic for too).


Petr

[ReneMiner]

the "iterations-counter" within for-next (also classic) is a good suggest. It can help avoid a lot of calculation within the loop and also can tell the current array-elements index in For Each (assumed it's a 1-dimensional, 1-based array).

There is already a keyword "Iterate" used together with "For" only- as far as i'm aware of it. Perhaps could simply combine it with other keywords:

For whatever In|To dontCare

If Iterate Begin Then
' first cycle
ElseIf Iterate End Then 
' last cycle
Else
  PrintL Iterate Value  ' current cycle-number/index
  Iterate For 'skip cycle
Endif
'...
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