34 points | by jmmv 2 days ago ago
5 comments
Always nice having an BASIC update.
> For extra trivia, note that the convention in Visual Basic is to use CamelCase.
This actually traces back to other BASIC dialects already in MS-DOS, I can tell this was already the common convention on Turbo BASIC, and QuickBASIC.
There were also tools that would format to the desired way, long before go fmt became a thing.
This is very cool, though I'd want to see typed FUNCTION blocks.
What do you mean? FUNCTIONs are supported, and their arguments and return values are strongly typed.
Sorry I missed it. I was expecting an As clause but conflating VB is probably not what is wanted.
The demo does indeed sound like BASIC.
Always nice having an BASIC update.
> For extra trivia, note that the convention in Visual Basic is to use CamelCase.
This actually traces back to other BASIC dialects already in MS-DOS, I can tell this was already the common convention on Turbo BASIC, and QuickBASIC.
There were also tools that would format to the desired way, long before go fmt became a thing.
This is very cool, though I'd want to see typed FUNCTION blocks.
What do you mean? FUNCTIONs are supported, and their arguments and return values are strongly typed.
Sorry I missed it. I was expecting an As clause but conflating VB is probably not what is wanted.
The demo does indeed sound like BASIC.