On Oct 12, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
Sure. But it incurs a performance overhead that incorporating it in
the language would not. ( unless RS implements the idea of #inline )
I advocate the addition of Inline and/or Macro functions, but who is
to say that adding these operators to the language wouldn't also add
the same type of overhead? After all Operator_Add and the like are
methods too.
I don't buy this "looks more like REALbasic" argument. Sure there
are cases where making things more verbose helps in readability,
but ++,-- += are so widespread out there in the wider world that I
don't see it being beneficial, either for teaching reasons or for
productivity or readability. Lets get real, ( scuse awful pun )
most programming students are going to HAVE to learn at least one C
style language in their life anyway. And increments are such a
common activity it makes sense to provide a quick way of coding
it. And future RB shouldn't be limited just to cater for novices
etc. There is no reason why the ++ ,--, etc couldn't be left in the
RB manuals until later chapters in the manuals. And no one would be
compelled to use it.
This is true: Cocoa, Java, JavaScript and PHP to name a few.
I would prefer that if the ++ and -- operators do get implemented
that they would always be a pre instead of the post. There is too
much confusion (for newbie and intermediate) with the post operators
when they are in a complex statement.
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