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@Olaf - I'm quite familiar with the intricacies of open source licenses (as you've figured out).

I see you've addressed the 2 required points per LGPL, which I was probing for - and failed to...

Thanks I was just wondering because I didn't see any source available to rebuild/relink the LGPL parts.

So does rc5 use LGPL code?

Considering I write web apps and use other languages, more than half of my dev time is actually in dark world.
If I need a web style responsive framework - I typically use a web app, or skip over...

Considering XAML's whole existence is to mimic HTML/CSS web design, it's a perfect example of dil's "darkworld" as I understand it. I mean who writes markup just to place a button?

but it's his...

right. the "Visual" part of Visual Basic. :)
although with a basic debugging IDE, the visual designer shouldn't be anywhere near as complex as the transpiler chain, and can be worked on by the...

well shoot. nicely done.

We have For Each in COM/VB6 per IEnumerable. The caveat is that Item has to be a Variant.
It also works for Intrinsic Type arrays.

my codebank post for supporting For Each on a custom collection....

this was debated at some point - due to the fact that some VB4/5/6 code rely on the non-short circuit (eager) evaluation. .NET ended up going with OrElse/AndAlso for backward compatibility.

For...

i definitely like Olaf/FreeBasic's and tg's variations.

makes sense. the += delegate form is basically how Javascript handles events.
Multicast is also built into COM/VB6 event subscription system (IConnectionPoint etc).
The nice thing about...

@Sitten Spynne
historically the way COM/VB6 Implements delegates is by using Interfaces (IComparable) or Events.

edit: The standard method of calling function pointers in VB6 nowadays is...

@baka I tend to aggree with you. I would suggest that to use an updated feature like Niya proposed, the source would need to opt in to them (to keep compatibility).
via

Option LazyTypes

@Niya - implementing those features are so trivial, I think we'll have almost no arguments on those. Probably a small discussion on the concrete implementation of constructors. Like what the actual...

Is it me or is that even more complicated than a VB6 event handler?


Private WithEvents m_httpClient As HttpClient

Sub ShowWebResults()
m_httpClient.GetStringAsync(url)
End Sub
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Despite being more fluent in C/C++/C#/PHP/Javascript, I'm actually a huge fan of the Basic language as culminated in VB6 (vs PowerBASIC etc)
It's just so close to pseudo code - that's why I prefer...

Olaf and I agree that the future of VB6 depends on a class based Core Runtime, that can be re-done per platform like .NET Core.
We also agree that it needs to be C translator (and COM) based, with...

A lot of mis-info (or just really outdated info) about COM in this thread.
Glad someone is trying to correct the record.
Fact is COM is going nowhere without a complete rewrite of the core OS the...

guilty... (not of stealing) but the general sentiment, and of lack of documentation.

I think you answered my question, but I'll try and clarify.

Do you know if VB6 uses thunks that DEP could break?
(I believe ATL/WTL does use thunks that MS makes an exception for because they...

I don't see Win32, or COM or GDI+ going anywhere for the foreseeable future. They would have to rewrite the entire shell, Office, and RPC.

@Krool - Is VB6 vulnerable to DEP? If MS kills VB6 due to...

Personally I would write my own Translator to C before I jumped to purebasic, but not everyone has that option.
If I could earn enough money doing this, I would quite my job tomorrow. (of course...

Where can I download the compiler source?