What Would You Change About VB6 if You Had The Chance? (For Novices and Experts)

Overloading Functions

The new language project seems great. But why use vb6 as a template? (or any type of source) All the questions unanswered in vb6 are answered in VB.NET (or C#).

Yipperdeedoodaa :afrog:

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Originally Posted by grilkip

The new language project seems great. But why use vb6 as a template? (or any type of source) All the questions unanswered in vb6 are answered in VB.NET (or C#).

Yipperdeedoodaa :afrog:

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We aren't using VB6 as a template. I posted a thread similar to this for VB.NET, C++ and C#. The point of this thread is to get an idea of what people feel they are lacking in their current programming languages/experiences. We (the LF team) hope to include as many of these things as possible.

need +=, -=, *=
if you are also including other language stuff please dont make me put ; at the end of most of my lines

I planned not to add the semicolons anyways ;)

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Originally Posted by notquitehere188

need +=, -=, *=
if you are also including other language stuff please dont make me put ; at the end of most of my lines

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please don't forget /= and \=

And Mod= , Abs= , in otherwords most mathamatical stuff with an equal behind it stores the result in The variable and the second number is placed after the ....= like
[CODE="LightFusion"]Dim I as integer
I = 234
I Mod= 5[/CODE]
And
Fixed length integers, longs and doubles so you won't need to format them over and over.

Declared like
Dim I as integer *10
or
Dim D as Double * 8.3
results in double always showing in 00000000.000 format without ten bytes extra

variable Arrays of arrays
Dim Arr as Array()()
where te first and second dimension can be redimmed. (the second for eahc element explicit as wel)

[CODE="Lightfusion"]redim Arr(0 to 10)()
redim Arr(0)(0 to 100)
redim Arr(1)(0 to 50)[/CODE]
or
[CODE="LightFusion"]Redim Arr(0 to 10)(0 to 5) 'for all not explicit defined elements or
Redim Arr(0 to 10)(0 to 5) Enforce 'for all second dimension elements [/CODE]

We are not gonna use the Dim, As, and ReDim statements to declare variables. It's gonna be like this:

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Int32 MyVarible = 5

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Formatting variables only makes sense when you are displaying them. Not when storing/declaring them.

I agree with the arrays - jagged arrays they are called.

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int myArray()()

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Operators will represent single machine opcodes. I think all will have the = variant.

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int Val
Val += 500
Val -= 200
Val &= 100    // And
Val %= 5      // Mod

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A random error generator?

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Originally Posted by space_monkey

A random error generator?

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Brilliant?

:D