What things would you add to the Xojo language (not the framework) HTPPSocket, PushButton and such are part of the framework -and those can be added to without having to change the underlying language. I’m curious about things like the FINAL keyword to make it so a subclass CAN NOT override a me…

[image] DaveS: += and -= would be nice as they are not ambiguous I agree they are not ambiguous to me: I don’t know what they mean, so I can’t confuse…

[image] anic297: I don’t know what they mean, += means add the value on the right side to the value of the variable on the left side, and store it to the variable on the left side. n += 1 means add 1 to n, and store it in n. Equivalent to n = n + 1

Thank you for your enlightenment. My thought is: those are “conventions”. i++ could have been named “i+" or “i>” or whatever; you have to map conventions to maths to use them. With “i=i+1”, you don’t have to remember an “arbitrary convention” to know what it does. Somewhat like when you see somet…

i++ and i-- are just short hand IF they were added there would probably never be a requirement to use them :slight_smile:

My take is that ++ and – are very old ideas from the C days. I think {Operator}= is a better way, and then you don’t really need the ++ – syntax. Don’t forget that you also have other handy things like: *= /= >>= <<= ^= &= |= etc.

The pre and post increment & decrement are indeed very old As far as I know they mapped almost directly onto specific instructions in the PDP-8 where K & R worked on C Personally IF I was implementing something like this I would maybe add the suffix forms only i++ i-- as short hand for …

The ++i and i++ operators by themselves have the same effect, add +1 to i. In C they are often used to increment and test at the same time. When they are used inline with another statement, The difference is when the ‘test’ is evaluated. While they look similar, they can also obscure what is going…

[image] jjr: By themselves they are mostly harmless. Hidden in a line/statement an they can cause no end of grief. 1000% ++i++ was perhaps the worst thing I ever saw now most compilers flag that as a warning if not an error

[image] npalardy: ++i++ That’s just begging for bodily harm. :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

better support for multidimensional arrays (rather than arrays of dictionaries that are arrays of dictionaries etc)

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If you were going to add to the Xojo language

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