Thanks for the info, it will help our transition. We'll go through the official channels for support to get the latest version installed.
For the record, I want to be able to code mostly in lowercase. I think it's much easier to code in lowercase because it makes writing output text easier (no need to correct casing because I forgot to hit caps-lock) also I don't have to remember to do the same thing when switching to another program. If I were forced to use uppercase keywords in code that would be unfeasible. I'm glad to hear about those new features coming down the pipe. Features like that are why we are looking at migrating to jBase. Do you have a target release date yet? On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 6:36:42 AM UTC-7, Mvreply wrote: > > Ian, > > jBASE 5.6.3 is not a beta. > > > > I can provide download details can be provided if you submit a ticket to > [email protected] <javascript:>. > > > > We now have a new component of the compiler that allows for case > insensitivity mentioned earlier. > > > > On our current development build (which hasn’t made it yet to a build you > can try), we have an option like this that allows case insensitivity on > variables and keywords. > > > > $option nocase > > > > So your code can look like this > > > > $option nocase > > a = 10 > > if a < 10 then > > print "a is less than 10" > > end > > IF A EQ 10 THEN > > PRINT "A = 10" > > END > > > > In one of our alpha releases this new option gave us some errors, so we > disabled it in jBASE 5.6.3 to ensure our customers didn’t have problems. It > looks like you have one of these errors on an earlier release. If this is > the case (and it could be something different) you can try setting this: > > > > export JBC_JPP2=0 > > > > or on Windows: > > > > set JBC_JPP2=0 > > > > and hopefully the problem will go away. > > > > These errors are now fixed on our development build. > > > > The next release of jBASE will have case insensitive coding (without these > silly errors, apologies). It will also have object support and JSON support > which will allow your BASIC code to have a look and feel of JavaScript (but > it isn’t JavaScript) as well as backward compatibility with all your > existing code – watch this space! > > > > Mike > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] <javascript:> [mailto: > [email protected] <javascript:>] *On Behalf Of *Ian Harper > *Sent:* 19 October 2017 23:14 > *To:* jBASE <[email protected] <javascript:>> > *Subject:* Re: Looking at moving to jBase from D3, have a couple of > questions > > > > I've set JBCEMULATE to D3 and d3 but I'm still seeing the conversion of > the angle brackets. I was able to compile using lowercase keywords. I don't > know exactly how to find the installed version. I ran ls on the /opt/jbase > dir and it looks like we were setup with version 5.6.0. > > bash-4.2$ ls -lA /opt/jbase > total 12 > drwxrwx--- 20 zumasys jbase 4096 Oct 16 08:53 5.6.00000.2809 > drwxrwx--- 19 zumasys jbase 4096 Oct 10 13:02 5.6.2 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 zumasys jbase 25 Oct 16 08:55 CurrentVersion -> /opt/jbase > /5.6.00000.2809 > > > Is 5.6.3 a beta release? > > -- > -- > IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. > > To post, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jBASE" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jBASE" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
