I would want moremust be as wide as the moonHow about something that's 6739986666787659948666753771754907668409286105635143120275902562304-bit?pfft just skip that an go straight for quantum processorsAnyway the Switch has a 64-bit processor so ints might also be 64 bits wide in SB now, if that means anything to you.Can't wait until we reach 512-bit processors. That'll be a while.
FUZE delayed again until May 31st 😈
https://youtu.be/8iiJlJ-dKDk
However, they did release this preview video and while I only skimmed it, some of what I saw might give SB a run for its money (full 3D with light/shadows...)
I believe the last line says vector pos[10][...
We've seen array name[size] = ... before, and I think that's just a regular array
no idea what the vector type means there.
Anyway,
It seems like { ... } is a vector literal, while [...] is an array or struct literal.
You can see {x,y}, {x,y,z}, and {} in the screenshots.
It appears that they're using 3D vectors to store RGB color values too.
Interestingly, there seems to be little distinction between arrays and structs (probably they're both pointers), while vectors get their own symbol.
array plr[4] = [.fwd = {}, .rgt = {}, .data = [], .newdata = [], .colour={}]
I think data and newdata are pointers to either an array or a struct
while the rest are the special vector type which is probably 3 double precision floats
The list of builtin functions looks like it was the result of someone saying "Ok quick write down a bunch of functions that sound useful!"let person = {
"firstName": "John",
"lastName": "Smith",
"isAlive": true,
"age": 27,
"address": {
"streetAddress": "21 2nd Street",
"city": "New York",
"state": "NY",
"postalCode": "10021-3100"
},
"phoneNumbers": [
{
"type": "home",
"number": "212 555-1234"
},
{
"type": "office",
"number": "646 555-4567"
},
{
"type": "mobile",
"number": "123 456-7890"
}
],
"children": [],
"spouse": null
};
It could also be some sort of struct initializer.
So for instance, in GO you can do something like this:
package main
import "fmt"
// Position class for a two dimensional point on a cartesian xy grid.
type position struct {
x float32
y float32
}
func main() {
q := position{4, 2}
fmt.Println("x :=", q.x, " y :=", q.y)
}
That makes a position struct and initializes the x and y with 4 and 2.
So if you had a vector struct like
struct vector3 x as double y as double z as double end structmaybe you could create and initialize one with something like :
Dim x as vector = {1.0, 2.0, 3.14159}
Of course that is all conjecture/wishful thinking and is probably at least half wrong.
awful single line IF statements require ENDIF....
not sure how user defined functions work...
function name() ... return void?
how would you return in the middle of a function?
Maybe user defined functions are just like GOSUB subroutines in SB (but maybe with arguments and a return value).
If there's no function ending keyword, it wouldn't possible to tell which code is inside the function, so there can't be local variables.If I remember right, functions in the pc/pi version on fuze basic ended with = and the return value. Looks like it got upgraded to the return keyword. They did allow local variables and recursion so it wasn't just a dressed up gosub. Hopefully it is smart enough to say a return outside of a loop or conditional by itself on a line is the end function marker. If not then we are stuck with single exit point functions which are annoying but not that bad.Oh, I hadn't thought about that. I guess it wouldn't be ambiguous, since a return outside of any conditional blocks will always end the function anyway. hmm... Lua does a similar thing, throwing an error if there is any code after return in a block. (But rather than being caused by the syntax itself, it's supposedly meant to prevent bugs) However, it's a huge pain when you're testing things and just want to skip all the code in a function. The same dumb trick of using if true then return endif will probably work, though.
My real question is what on Earth are they doing still adding features this late in the process, they should be in bug fix only mode. I foresee another schedule slip.I suspect that it's probably nowhere near finished yet, given all the delays and the small amount of information that they've released.
