Tirritate fans of OOP and BASIC by insisting that they be combined:10 LET #1 = "HELLO

[riley@toot.cat]

Tirritate fans of OOP and BASIC by insisting that they be combined:

10 LET #1 = "HELLO.TXT".OPEN "O"
20 "Hello, world!".PRINT #1
30 #1.CLOSE
40 13.SCREEN
50 (100, 100).CIRCLE 80
60 LINE.INPUT: REM wait for enter key
70 0.SCREEN.CLS: REM Method chaining!
80 END

[uilebheist@polyglot.city]

@riley I'd like to replace line 80 with:

80 PROGRAM.END

[riley@toot.cat]

@Uilebheist That would probably be among Microsoft's innovation for QOOP.BASIC, which introduces Structured Features(tm), and changes the syntax of OPEN to LET #1 = "HELLO.TXT".OPEN(INPUT.FOR)

[riley@toot.cat]

@Uilebheist Speaking of method chaining, I kind of suspect there would be a real utility to inventing a notation that means "call this method, ignore what it returns, and let me attach another method call to the same object without explicitly stating its name". Perhaps 13->{Screen(); Cls();} ?