10-17-2022, 05:21 AM
@dbox Aye, that's my opinion, just as other folks find other features and additions to be a waste. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and, as an open source project, everyone is free to work on the project and develop new syntax and capabilities. As I mentioned, I don't think any of the existing developers are going to implement such a syntax into the language for three main reasons:
1) This syntax can already be accounted for, almost letter by letter, simply by using existing IF THEN statements.
2) The proposed syntax is both wordier and more inefficient than the existing method.
3) The developers we have are all volunteers who work to *improve* the language in their spare time. This change doesn't improve anything.
But, with that said, I'd encourage Pete -- or whomever wants to, including you -- to work up the changes yourself and push them into the repo. We always try and support new developers, and this really doesn't seem like it'd be overly complicated for someone to use as a break-in exercise to learning and interacting with the qb64pe.bas source.
Just because none of the current devs would be interested in spending their precious free time to add or make a suggested alteration, that doesn't mean you can't make it yourself. *That's* the beauty of open-source programming.
1) This syntax can already be accounted for, almost letter by letter, simply by using existing IF THEN statements.
2) The proposed syntax is both wordier and more inefficient than the existing method.
3) The developers we have are all volunteers who work to *improve* the language in their spare time. This change doesn't improve anything.
But, with that said, I'd encourage Pete -- or whomever wants to, including you -- to work up the changes yourself and push them into the repo. We always try and support new developers, and this really doesn't seem like it'd be overly complicated for someone to use as a break-in exercise to learning and interacting with the qb64pe.bas source.
Just because none of the current devs would be interested in spending their precious free time to add or make a suggested alteration, that doesn't mean you can't make it yourself. *That's* the beauty of open-source programming.