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lumberjack wrote:I do understand c# so not a problem

wriedmann wrote:
for properties I prefer the short syntax. Instead of

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property MyProp as string
  get
    return _cMyProp
  end get
  set
    _cMyProp := value
  end set
end property

you can write

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property MyProp as string get _cMyProp set _cMyProp := value

PROPERTY MyProp AS STRING GETSET _oMyProp
PROPERTY MyProp AS STRING GET _oMyProp
PROPERTY MyProp AS STRING SET _oMyProp

FORCE SET PROPERTY Config1 AS STRING GETSET oConfig1
FORCE SINGLE SET PROPERTY Config2 AS STRING GETSET oConfig2

It all comes down to style and I find VS a very productive environment and easy to use with large amounts of code (I can hear Dick throwing rocks at his screen). But that's personal choice, and I can understand the attraction of eg. pre-processor directives and it's a very good feature in X#.

Unfortunately like many I had to move on before X# was ever conceived... I did try to do it in Vulcan, but we all know what happened there. So now I have a huge code base in C#, and I've learnt to love curly braces, semi-colons and case-sensitivity

tom@dieselworks.com.au wrote:Hi Johan, thanks for this, yes looks like I am learning something new again. Can you confirm this is what I think I see:
The MYOB Object is much like a Global Hidden class instance that we can access through functions but no direct referencing except since X# is fully OO, we have no functions..... this is why I could not find them

BEGIN NAMESPACE MyStaticClasses
STATIC CLASS MyFunctions
  STATIC METHOD Left(s AS STRING, len AS INT) AS STRING
    VAR sLeft := s:SubString(0, len)
  RETURN sLeft
EMD CLASS
END NAMESPACE

FUNCTION Start() AS VOID
  VAR myString := "This is a very long string"
  ? MyStaticClasses.MyFunctions.Left(myString, 4) // Result will be "This"
RETURN

USING MyStaticClasses
FUNCTION Start() AS VOID
  VAR myString := "This is a very long string"
  ? MyFunctions.Left(myString, 4) // Result will be "This"
RETURN

USING STATIC MyStaticClasses
FUNCTION Start() AS VOID
  VAR myString := "This is a very long string"
  ? Left(myString, 4) // Result will be "This"
RETURN

I've learnt to love curly braces, semi-colons and case-sensitivity[/quote wrote:
You mean you got used to it. I got used to it too, in C#. But getting used to it doesn't mean I often wonder how designers of a language could pick the worst possible solution (=the one causing the most problems, extra time etc) for almost very basics of the language. I think after they setup C# they were promoted to the Microsoft department developing VS, where they were allowed to continue their destructive work.

But I'm glad for you you like it.

Dick

ic2 wrote: I've learnt to love curly braces, semi-colons and case-sensitivity
You mean you got used to it.