* Notting The Knot *

[dw817]

Suggestion for B4GL:

* Sometimes you have big lines of comparisons, would be nice to see a feature where you can continue a line on the next line by using ";" so it doesn't scroll off the edge of the screen, thus:

if inrange(x,0,255)and inrange(y,0,255)and(pstall=1or(not(x>=240and y>=112and y<=128)))then

Could become:

if inrange(x,0,255)and inrange(y,0,255);
  and(pstall=1or(not(x>=240and y>=112and y<=128)))then

or, without the ";" :

if inrange(x,0,255)and inrange(y,0,255)
  and(pstall=1or(not(x>=240and y>=112and y<=128)))then

What do you think ?

[DJLinux]

it's more clever if you split long terms in shorter parts

if inrange(x,0,255) and inrange(y,0,255) then
  if (pstall=1) or (not(x>=240 and y>=112 and y<=128) then
  
  end if
end if

if the first test failed you don't need to express the rest
(it's faster too)

Joshy

[dw817]

Hi DJLinux:

* Hmm !
That's a good idea at that. I just didn't want a bunch of trailing ENDIF's, however, that's a nice solution so I'll split my busy IF statements to two lines that way; hate to have 2 ENDIFs for one statement but hate even more to scroll to read the rest of my coding for that statement.

Thank you.

[Pizzasgood]

if the first test failed you don't need to express the rest
(it's faster too)

Doesn't B4GL do short-circuit-evaluation?

[DJLinux]

May 28, 2009 22:00:19 GMT -5 Pizzasgood said:

Doesn't B4GL do short-circuit-evaluation?

Only if you use LAND and LOR.
(sorry if i'm wrong)

Joshy

[Supermonkey]

Only if you use LAND and LOR.
(sorry if i'm wrong)

I believe that is correct .