http://gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=396
------- Comment #2 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-06-20 16:31 -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> I've been working with .17 for a while, and while your concerns about it are
> valid, you have to look at things from their perspective.
>
> What they did was eliminate certain language constructs that were hacky by
> nature. Things like variable suffixes, which would make code even more obscure
> to a non-hardcore programmer ("Ok, so, i% is the percentage of i. Got it!").
> Or, the CALL 'function', which was just stupid. Same with LET.
Variable suffixes is actually the one I am most unhappy about. (well second
only to GOSUB, since I know we have a decent workaround for that) This to me is
one of the defining characteristics of "basic" as a language. Mainly I like it
because being able to know a variable is a string at a glance is very helpful.
The $ suffix is so deeply integrated into my psyche that when I go to a store
and read a price tag I think "string-nineteen-dollars-and-nintey-five-cents"
> .... And, implicit variables are bad bad
> bad anyway, in a language that supports them (Even in PHP, I tend to write "$i
> = 0;" at the top anyway).
I contend that implicit-on-read is bad, but implicit-on-write is not bad, and
actually astonishingly convenient.
> By trimming all this cruft, they can simplify existing rules, and hopefully
> extend the language in a consistent and graceful manner.
>
> That said, none of this magically upgrades existing code. But, there's no
> sense
> blacklisting .17
I didn't mean to imply I wanted to blacklist 0.17
> Lastly, this isn't a bug.
Which is why I chose severity->feature request :)
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