On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 01:50:55PM -0400, Mike Caron wrote:
> On 8/23/2010 1:39 PM, James Paige wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 05:22:00AM +1200, Ralph Versteegen wrote:
>>> On 24 August 2010 04:33, James Paige<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 04:56:27AM -0700, [email protected] 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> teeemcee
>>>>> 2010-08-23 04:56:27 -0700 (Mon, 23 Aug 2010)
>>>>> 218
>>>>> More horror! MenuDefs are meant to be deleted with ClearMenuData, or they 
>>>>> leak all their items! Fix the numerous places where we were doing that.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be REALLY great if FB let us use constructors and destructors.
>>>>
>>>> Isn't -lang deprecated the thing that is holding us back from using
>>>> them?
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> James
>>>
>>> Yep.
>>>
>>> There are a few UDTs now which have to be manually destructed, and I
>>> feel really bad every time I introduce one because it makes our code
>>> less friendly and more and more C-like.
>>>
>>> I suspect that constructor and destructor support could be added to
>>> -lang deprecated by patching a few lines in the compiler, and I am
>>> almost considering trying it. And if I didn't have all these OHR
>>> features to work on, I would definitely be working on fb2c++ right
>>> now.
>>
>> Have you been following the forum thread in which a couple people have
>> threatened to bribe you to work on it with the goal of an XNA port?
>
> What, really? While I would really enjoy a .NET port of free basic, I  
> doubt this would happen any time in the near future.

Oh, is XNA .NET only? I had mistakenly assumed that it allowed you to 
make thin .NET wrappers around mostly C code, like you can with 
iPhone+ObjectiveC and Android+Java

---
James
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