01-04-2005, 09:15 PM
Quote:Yes, qb is not python, but fb is not qb now since it has added many new features. I know that STRING$ is good, but I think "a"*5 is more intuitionistic and need less letters, why not have both of them in fbc for different user choices? I also think other methods in PYTHON/RUBY can be imported into fbc for convenient while keeping the old qb syntax-compatible.
I think the most reason is, that "a"*5 is not QBish.
And it is not intuitionistic, like you say.
It is intuitionistic for python-people.
But C developer for example see in
print 'a' *5
as result
485
Because they see 'a' as char. And char=int.
And the char 'a' is 97 as value.
And 97*5=485.
The most extensions in FB are additional functions and so.
But to write
print "a"*5
is not a new function. It is basically different from the normal QBasic way to handle numbers and strings.
And additional point is, that FB-people love QB.
And if you want to make bigger changes to the language, it is in any time a complete different language and no longer like QBasic.
So, I think that v1ctor and the other FB people never supports something like you want in FB.
But FB is OpenSource. If you want, you can implement it in a FB-fork yourself if you can.
But I think, that it will never integrated in the official FB.
Greatings
theuserbl