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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #1830 on: February 02, 2011, 03:02:54 am »
I think he means its just a bit more optimized than:

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If A=1
Bla
End
If A=2
Bla
End
...

But a switch command would be a *lot* more optimized than both, and a lot better looking

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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #1831 on: February 02, 2011, 03:11:37 am »
Oh ok, thaT's good to hear then.

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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #1832 on: February 02, 2011, 10:29:27 am »
Edit for a completely unrelated subject: Can I bring up again a feature request for alternate steps for For() loops, the same way it is in BASIC?
There's actually a pretty easy way to do this: http://ourl.ca/4129/77715

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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #1833 on: February 02, 2011, 12:10:25 pm »
I think I found something that's both an incompatibility issue and a feature request.
Can the instant goto be made compatible with CalcUtil's "save screen" option?
The save screen is when you quit out of the program editor it asks if you want to save changes or not, very useful :) but it causes crashes with axe :P
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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #1834 on: February 02, 2011, 02:39:47 pm »
Quigibo, if you are implementing Switch statements, can you include support for Strings?

In computers, no programming language has switchs with strings, and I'd love them ;D

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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #1835 on: February 02, 2011, 03:23:41 pm »
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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #1836 on: February 02, 2011, 03:30:13 pm »
Not that Axe has string comparison features in the first place :P
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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #1837 on: February 02, 2011, 03:35:23 pm »
the thing is how easy and optimize switches would be.  You would only have to check the value of the original statement once, and then compare that to all the others similar to a long chain of "Else!If... Else!If..." statements.   I thought it was a good idea, and I think I could help code it, though I doubt it's really that difficult to code.

While we're at it.. I also suggest adding optimized string comparison functions :)
« Last Edit: February 02, 2011, 03:35:35 pm by Ashbad »

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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #1838 on: February 02, 2011, 03:42:04 pm »
Quigibo, if you are implementing Switch statements, can you include support for Strings?

In computers, no programming language has switchs with strings, and I'd love them ;D
C# and related languages actually do have switches for strings (I've used them more than once). However, it would be nice to have any string comparisons at all in Axe, since we want name strings and stuff like that.
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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #1839 on: February 02, 2011, 03:52:56 pm »
Quigibo, if you are implementing Switch statements, can you include support for Strings?

In computers, no programming language has switchs with strings, and I'd love them ;D

It might be worse in Axe since string comparison is so inefficient (there's no string comparison test yet anyway).

While we're at it.. I also suggest adding optimized string comparison functions :)

I had a string utility Axiom back when Axe supported them, but I lost it when I lost my thumb drive. I could easily recode it, though :D

But it'd be nice as a built-in function too, if Axe still has space on its data page?
« Last Edit: February 02, 2011, 03:53:32 pm by Deep Thought »




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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #1840 on: February 02, 2011, 03:54:26 pm »
thing is, string comparison isn't hard to make, but hard to optimize, from what I can tell; and putting that in a switch in axe could be painful indeed :(

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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #1841 on: February 02, 2011, 06:52:48 pm »
Oh yeah, Axe doesn't even have string comparison.

It's really hard to code like this in stuff like 'Easy', 'Medium' or 'Hard'. There are lot of ways to turn this around of course, but indirect.

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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #1842 on: February 03, 2011, 01:49:14 am »
A little feature :
When we go in compilation menu, it could be nice to put the last source compiled at the beginning of the list. What do you think ?

I think it could be very intuitive, and usefull.
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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #1843 on: February 03, 2011, 10:25:37 am »
An option to disable the token swaps when editing source. They slow down the program editor a bit, compounded by my recent switch to the DCS7 8-line program editor. I can deal with ref() instead of Rect().
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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #1844 on: February 03, 2011, 10:27:40 am »
Oh, I have a feature request: a Symbol Table. In other words, I want to define memory locations other than L1-L6 as alpha-numeric symbols. For example, this:
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GetCalc(Str1, 768) -> {L1+700}r
...code...
Pt-Off(2,5,Pic1)->{L1+700}r
Copy(L6, {L1+700}r, 768
becomes this:
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#Define(BUF,L1+700
GetCalc(Str1, 768) -> BUF
...code...
Pt-Off(2,5,Pic1)->BUF
Copy(L6,BUF,768)
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