Sure, they fixed it after a user reported the bug, but don't you think
that negative increments would have been checked in testing? I don't
know if I would have found it but I hope I would, and an ms team (?)
certainly should have, after all it's a pretty small application.
On 17/01/2016 17:56, Laurie Alvey wrote:
Out of interest, I downloaded Small Basic and ran the descending loop. It
worked fine.
Laurie
On 16 January 2016 at 11:26, AndyHC <[email protected]> wrote:
The latest excellent (if daunting) offering by Verity Stob on The Register
linked to i-programmer.com (well worth a look if, like me, you haven't
come across it before). That in turn led me to look at ms Simple Basic - a
learners' programming language. I was musing on whether ms might be
persuaded to come up with 'Visual Foxcub' - but was a bit put off when I
noticed on the forum that ms implementation was less than thorough:
<quote>
Thiago#
This following ... code in Introducing Small Basic:
For i = 10 To 1 Step -1
TextWindow.WriteLine(i)
EndFor
is not working!
thanks!
Vijaye Raji#
Thanks for reporting that Thiago.
That's a bug in the compiler which we'll fix for the next release.
</quote>
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