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[Charles Pegge]

I like the soft shadows

Yes, by all means, I would encourage industrial grade stainless-steel programming. Paradoxically, it usually involves breaking complex expressions down into simple ones. Then it is easier to identify repeating patterns in the code, and then compact them into functions or macros. It improves the readability of code, and ease of verification.

To enforce variable declaration, we have #autodim off

[Mike Lobanovsky]

If a complex task only requires two parameters to run, should the BASIC programmer care beyond the intended results  and the arguments presented?

I'd say

• a complex task that only requires two parameters to run is a chimera; and
• the BASIC coder wouldn't, but the BASIC programmer, must.

I like the soft shadows

Veritable penumbra emulation is absolutely impossible outside GLSL, and still rather heavy on the GPU when implemented in a shader.

Yes, by all means, I would encourage industrial grade stainless-steel programming. Paradoxically, it usually involves breaking complex expressions down into simple ones. Then it is easier to identify repeating patterns in the code, and then compact them into functions or macros. It improves the readability of code, and ease of verification.

+1 in a static/JIT compiler, but it is a real speed killer in an interpreter where every run time temp var allocation, cast, or condition in the user code is a bottleneck.

To enforce variable declaration, we have #autodim off

+1 again.