Enhancement Request

[Scott Turchin]

Is there any chance PB Would consider allowing // to act as a REM statement as well as the " ' " ???

I Find that when I am porting code I have to convert all of these, not a big deal, but sure would be nice


Scott

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[Lance Edmonds]

It's been touted before, and the concensus from R&D is that PowerBASIC is PowerBASIC and not C/C++. That said, I'll still pass your request along though... nothing ventured, nothing gained!

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[Edwin Knoppert]

Reply to Lance:

But it would be great if we could use .h files (#define) !!
Resources are C, PB uses it


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[Steve Hutchesson]

There is a simple solution, use global replace in your text editor
and replace "//" with "'"

As some headers use the old C comment notation, doing only the C++
would be little use. PB already has both basic and asm notation,
why bother with redundant notation, C/C++ is C/C++, basic is basic.

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[Cecil Williams]

C and C++ can also be remmed as /* whatever
whatever here too
*/

Not just limited to "//". The "//" is generally used
when one has a single line comment. I agree with Lance
and Hutch, Basic is Basic and C is C.

Cheers
Cecil

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[Michael Mattias]

But it would be great if we could use .h files (#define) !!

In the source code there is PB/Win32 source code to read a ".h" file, find all the "#define" and create a "8.bi" file with all the values changed to pb equates.

That is this line:

#define WM_MY_COOL_MESSAGE     8000

becomes:
[code]
%WM_MY_COOL_MESSAGE = 8000&
[code]

I don't have the url ref handy, but if you search under my name it should come up.

Code is easy to modify if you want to do more with it.

MCM

[Edwin Knoppert]

That's not the issue.

The statement don't bring PB to close to C is something i don't support.
If PB would accept C notation, why complain?
Just don't use it if you don't want to.
(ASM is included, you won't here me complain)

The matter of the .h files is that they 'most likely' are gonna be used by my project(s).
So renaming/converting is something i already do.
Therefore my suggestion to combine these.
It simply saves time.

There are NO basic resource files!

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[Tim Wisseman]

Just but a ' in front of your // like this:

'//////////////////
'// Ohhh Comments!
'//
'/////////////////
'//
'//

That is what I do, it looks very neat.


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[Lance Edmonds]

How pretty!