Re: Pass by Reference
- Posted by Steady Dec 19, 2014
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Interesting discussion.
I agree with David Cuny that PBR is essential in any language.
I also think that GOTO, ON… GOTO, GOSUB, ON…GOSUB are needed and can be used nicely.
You have just changed everything to IF…THEN…ELSE…ELSIF, or DO….WHILE which also would be equally catastrophic if used incorrectly.
In defense of these statements I can say that the languages (BASIC and EUPHORIA) were developed in the days of KB and MB of memory. In these days of GB memory and TB drives, the approach should be to get your C, D and other derivative languages right, because you put heavy reliance on these in your compilation and DLL usage.
BTW, David, I do not see any reason for you to abandon WxBasic. It was a good effort and you should bring it to the level of Wxwidgets 3.0.2
