Hello,
I have to beg again for the "Explicit" compiler option.
I just spent an hour debugging a problem because I typed "gsme" instead of "game".
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Automatically creating variables has no place in a modern software language. It may be cutesy when you're writing a tiny program and you need to create variables like iii and jjj on the fly - we used to do this in Fortran back in the 80's. But, when you are writing a serious program, the possibility of a typo creating an impossible to find error is just too great. Everything should be explicitly defined.
In the 80's I spent an entire day with a Program Manager tweaking parameters on an application only to find out that some floating-point parameter was undeclared and assumed by the compiler to be an integer making the parameter set entirely worthless.
</Soapbox>
B4A is fantastic except for this one feature of Basic.
Thanks,
Barry.
I have to beg again for the "Explicit" compiler option.
I just spent an hour debugging a problem because I typed "gsme" instead of "game".
<Soapbox>
Automatically creating variables has no place in a modern software language. It may be cutesy when you're writing a tiny program and you need to create variables like iii and jjj on the fly - we used to do this in Fortran back in the 80's. But, when you are writing a serious program, the possibility of a typo creating an impossible to find error is just too great. Everything should be explicitly defined.
In the 80's I spent an entire day with a Program Manager tweaking parameters on an application only to find out that some floating-point parameter was undeclared and assumed by the compiler to be an integer making the parameter set entirely worthless.
</Soapbox>
B4A is fantastic except for this one feature of Basic.
Thanks,
Barry.
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