But ... what does an added feature teach a newbie when it is added "in a twisted way"? Is the message to be: obfuscation and code tricks are a good practice? Or - go away, you aren't ready for this? Maybe I did not express myself well, but on the contrary I wanted to say that it is better...

I hope that all these new features for arrays will be compatible not only of all types predefined by fbc (including the var-len string), but also any type defined by the user (taking into account its own constructors/destructor and overload operators if exist).

What would freebasic's array2() = array1() aspire to be? Both static and dynamic arrays with similar dimensions up to 8 resulting in completely individual arrays ? For example, only allowed by the compiler for two arrays of the same type and number of dimensions (or the destination array of same ty...

Yes, but for example for the new array copy feature: ⋅ it would be nice to be able to write it in the natural form: array2() = array1() => evolution of the implicit 'Let operator', ⋅ and not: copyArray(array2, array1) => where 'copyArray' would be for exam...

I agree. The most important thing for a user is to add in FBC features that do not exist yet and that the user can not code himself, or do it, but in a twisted way. For me, this ability to discriminate between an array of fixed size and an array of variable size is interesting (like the ability to e...

screen 19 dim as longint v1 , v2 , v3 , v4 do dim as longint n1 = int( rnd * 65536 ) v1 = n1 mod 256 v2 = n1 \ 256 print print n1 , v1 , v2 ' for b as longint = 0 to 65535 step 1 ' if b mod 256 = v1 and b \ 256 = v2 then print b : exit for ' next print v2 * 256 + v1 sleep loop until inkey = chr(27)...

screen 19 do const as integer n = 2 '' 2: for displaying 2 decimal digits at most const as integer c = 10 ^ n dim as double d dim as string s dim as integer i d = int( rnd * 65536 ) / 256 '' decimal number to round to 'n' decimal digits at most s = str( clngint( d * c ) / c ) '' to round the 'n'th ...

@coderJeff, about adding a new anchor (link to a location on the same page). I added this note in FBWikiFormatting documentation page: Note about adding a new anchor: - Don't pretest the new anchor link through the "Preview" mode, otherwise that cancels all changes in progress done with &q...

It's been helpful that fxm, very consistently, brings the perspective of a skilled and and knowledgeable user to the community. I think we have made a pretty good team over last couple years to solve some compiler issues. fxm providing the user point of view, and myself providing the developer poin...

badidea wrote:Thanks, the compiler is more advanced than I expected :-)

We must thank dkl.

Obviously we could merge the 2 pages ( 'Pointer' and 'Ptr' ) into one ( 'Pointer | Ptr' ). (keeping 'KeyPgPtr' as the main link, as there will be fewer 'KeyPgPointer' links to rename) Done (1 page emptied and 24 pages updated). @coderJeff, Can you completely ...

@MrSwiss, There is one 'This' missing ! :-) Erase(This.points) (but I do not criticize your remark: I, too, always precise 'This.' in the member procedures) @badidea, (more seriously) For UDT containing a dynamic array as a member field, the implicit Let operator: - Size the ...

1) As long as it is not dereferenced, a pointer can take any value, even a value corresponding to an invalid memory address. This is why I wrote this caution only at the level of each dereferencing operator. For example, if one defines an array as: Dim As Integer array(10 To 20) the first in...

Done:
- KeyPgOpValueOf → fxm [Added a caution about a null pointer use or a resulting address corresponding to invalid memory access]
- KeyPgOpPtrIndex → fxm [Added a caution about a null pointer use or a resulting address corresponding to invalid memory access]

If this automatic Zstring conversion was limited for a [U]Byte only (and therefore not for an Integer nor a Boolean), 'If *pz Then ...' would probably be refused at compilation step. (Wstring conversion limited to a [U]Long or a [U]Longint only, not for an Integer nor a Boolean) To try to c...