alias key word

[Emil_halim]

Hi Charles,

can you please allow this

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! Init  "_Init@4" (char* Titel)

instead of this

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! Init alias "_Init@4" (char* Titel)

so alias will be optional to write or not.

thanks

[Emil_halim]

Hi Peter,

with only one line there is no problem.

but with my MagicPro library i want it.

[Aurel]

I don't see what is wrong with Alias, and alias exists because of difference.

[Emil_halim]

Aurel,

it is ' better for the sake of simplicity , easy & fast to allow things to be shorter without repeating.

SO see this

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! _Init@4 Lib "magicPro.dll" (char* Titel)
! _........@4 Lib "magicPro.dll" (char* Titel)
! _........@4 Lib "magicPro.dll" (char* Titel)
! _........@4 Lib "magicPro.dll" (char* Titel)
.............
.............
.............
 
is it better than this

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extern lib "magicPro.dll"
! Init = "_Init@4" (char* Titel)
or
! Init  "_Init@4" (char* Titel)
!......
!......
end extern

all things that l want to make alias to be optional or can be replaced with "=" or  " "

thanks.
 

[Charles Pegge]

Hi Emil, I like the idea, and I think it can be implemented quite easily, without interfering with the existing alias syntax.

[Aurel]

I know that is simplier without alias and i when is possible don't use alias.
But in some cases alias is fine , and for the sake Allias is used in many source codes around.
I prefer tipycal BASIC syntax over other things . 

[Emil_halim]

Hi Chrales ,

thanks you for your responding.

Hi Aurel,

it will be optional , so you can use it as you prefer.   

[Charles Pegge]

The main risk is turning OxygenBasic into a honey-trap. Simplified syntax, but harder to export to other, more pedantic languages.

[Emil_halim]

yes there may be a risk.

BUT , it is optional which means that Oxygen can be customized as any one want , and that is the power
of Oxygen.

so optional also means you can use it as the usual using. 

[JRS]

The main risk is turning OxygenBasic into a honey-trap.

THEN as an optional keyword makes porting to ScriptBasic for example an extra inclusion step.

Talking about flexibility and options, do you think O2 should care if it references an array element as a function and assumes the programmer was just being a dummy? How about not requiring any further concatenation operators once the intension is made? ( PRINT a + b c   )

Thankfully when trying to load these homomorphic examples of BASIC, SB just drops to the prompt and laughs.

[Aurel]

Some syntax options which Charles create i like very much BUT tend to create
some sort of C / basic mutant I simply don't like..
especialy when we comes to this {} mambo-jambo...
I think that Charles use right combination with liberal syntax
and to many options many times will confuse other people,right?

What i would like is to remove () with array like arr(n) I would like to see
only arr[n] and that myArr(n) be used only for functions.

[Emil_halim]

Hi Charles,

I like the idea, and I think it can be implemented quite easily

have you made any progress here?

[Charles Pegge]

Yes, nearly ready. I have a few more tests to do.

from MinWin.inc:

Code: OxygenBasic

1.   '=========================
2.  'UNPROTOTYPED DECLARATIONS
3.  '=========================
4.  
5.   extern lib "Kernel32.dll"
6.   ! QueryPerformanceCounter                 '1
7.  ! QueryPerformanceFrequency                     '1
8.  ! AllocConsole                                  '0
9.  ! AttachConsole                                 '1
10.  ! FreeConsole                                   '0
11.  ! SetConsoleTitle    "SetConsoleTitleA"         '1
12.  ! GetConsoleMode                                '2
13.  ! SetConsoleMode                                '2
14.  ! ReadConsoleInput   "ReadConsoleInputA"        '4
15.  ! GetCommandLine     "GetCommandLineA"          '0
16.  ! GetModuleHandle    "GetModuleHandleA"         '1
17.  ! GetModuleFileName  "GetModuleFileNameA"       '3
18.  ! GetStdHandle                                  '1
19.  ! GetLastError                                  '0
20.  ! SetLastError                                  '1
21.  ! CreateProcess      "CreateProcessA"           '10
22.  ! ExitProcess                                   '1
23.  ! Sleep                                         '1
24.  ! CreatePipe                                    '4
25.  ! CreateThread                                  '6
26.  ! WaitForMultipleObjects                        '4
27.  ! CloseHandle                                   '1
28.  ! GlobalAlloc                                   '2
29.  ! GlobalReAlloc                                 '3
30.  ! GlobalLock                                    '1
31.  ! GlobalUnlock                                  '1
32.  ! GlobalFree                                    '1
33.  ! FindFirstFile       "FindFirstFileA"          '2
34.  ! FindNextFile        "FindNextFileA"           '2
35.  ! FindClose                                     '1
36.  ! CreateFile          "CreateFileA"             '7
37.  ! ReadFile                                      '5
38.  ! WriteFile                                     '5
39.  ! DeleteFile          "DeleteFileA"             '1
40.  ! CreateDirectory     "CreateDirectoryA"        '1
41.  ! RemoveDirectory     "RemoveDirectoryA"        '1
42.  ! SetHandleInformation                          '3
43.  ! GetFullPathName     "GetFullPathNameA"        '4
44.  ! GetCurrentDirectory "GetCurrentDirectoryA"    '2
45.  ! SetCurrentDirectory "SetCurrentDirectoryA"    '1
46.  ! BeginUpdateResource "BeginUpdateResourceA"    '2
47.  ! UpdateResource      "UpdateResourceA"         '6
48.  ! EndUpdateResource   "EndUpdateResourceA"      '2
49.  end extern
50.