Very neat implementation! I freaking love how nice Rust makes this!
Any plans to support structures in the language? I know that's not a typical Basic feature, but it would be awesome. Also, be a rebel: add block comments.
Yeah, structs (records) is something I've been wanting to add and that became reasonably easy with the full rewrite of the compiler I did in 0.13. Probably in the next update!
The IDEs would format the desired way as soon as you cursored off the line in some cases. This had benefits and drawbacks: it would actually parse the line, so if there was a syntax error, you had to dismiss the dialog and fix it before you could move anywhere. Kind of a pain when you're roughing out code.
Out of modern IDEs for more conventional languages, the one that comes the closest to the behavior I want is Emacs, which is one reason I've stuck with it lo these 30 years.
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 29.5 ms ] threadAny plans to support structures in the language? I know that's not a typical Basic feature, but it would be awesome. Also, be a rebel: add block comments.
> For extra trivia, note that the convention in Visual Basic is to use CamelCase.
This actually traces back to other BASIC dialects already in MS-DOS, I can tell this was already the common convention on Turbo BASIC, and QuickBASIC.
There were also tools that would format to the desired way, long before go fmt became a thing.
Out of modern IDEs for more conventional languages, the one that comes the closest to the behavior I want is Emacs, which is one reason I've stuck with it lo these 30 years.
For many years, it practically only supports Windows, Linux, and DOS. Now add macOS into the list: https://deb.fbxl.net/macos/
Much thanks!