QB64 REPORT S01E01: "OPTION _EXPLICIT"

[FellippeHeitor]

‪Here's the first episode of QB64 Report, our podcast on all things QB64. In this episode, "OPTION _EXPLICIT"  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1147208/4082153-pilot-option-_explicit‬

[bplus]

So cool to hear you guys speaking :)

[Ashish]

Very nice! Very cool to hear @STxAxTIC  and @Cobalt  voice. :)
As for Fellippe, I already heard him before in his youtube videos

[Richard Frost]

That was an interesting podcast. 

A side note in it puzzled me, that some people edit not using the IDE.  Why?  I find the IDE fine for editing even 6000 line programs.  The only deficiency it has is that I was used to Ctrl-\ from 4.5 to initiate a search, and I fixed that by using AutoHotKey.

[TempodiBasic]

Great!
So you force me to improve my listening ability, that at this time is low.

Thanks

I find very interesting to have a different channel of informations about QB64, an extra channel to communicate and let people to deal with QB64.

Cool experience.

[TempodiBasic]

@Richard Frost
Also I use QB64IDE  both to remember old QB45IDE both because I write little programs and I mustn't use more windows to see at different places of code....with my need it is ok and I'm starting to use the comment and uncomment options to debug, a little less the navigation bookmark and so rarely the console$. But I think that this is relative to own way to project and to code.

I've tried the Dav's IDE and also Notepad++ with the RhoSigma's mod for QB64.
At the actual state the only feature that I find fine and it is not in QB64IDE is the action to open/close an indenting block of code like it is possible in Notepad++, Intellij idea, Eclipse, Code Blocks and other modern IDEs.

Good Coding

[Qwerkey]

Fellippe, Bill & Dave, thanks for taking the time to do this.  Great to hear you.  When I have seen OPTION _EXPLICIT in people's code and then looked it up in Wiki, I have thought "why would anybody do that?", so now I know.  Thanks a lot.
The podcast was both heartening and disheartening:  the latter aspect is for the completely disorganised coder that I am - never have I written code with any kind of structure, and members have had to put up with the shambles that my projects are!  I remain thankful that the QB64 community accepts all types.

A final word re Fellippe: another activity that you have taken on??  I just do not know how you do it, but please do carry on, we're all immensely grateful to you and the team.

[Qwerkey]

Oh, by the way, I have now found a slight typo in the "OPTION _EXPLICIT" Wiki page in the example code given:

OPTION _EXPLICIT
DIM myVariable AS INTEGER
myVariable = 5
PRINT myVariabe

In the last line the variable name is misspelt.  So, if someone has a bit of spare time (but hardly a pressing issue!).

In my code every variable has a variable subscript to define type, so I'll never be using OPTION_EXPLICIT and will declare only arrays and _MEM objects.  I'll be carrying on in my shambles mode!

[luke]

A side note in it puzzled me, that some people edit not using the IDE.  Why?

• It doesn't play well with tiling window managers
• It can't do multiple files (I don't consider having multiple IDE windows open to be sufficient)
• It's resource intensive
• It can't keep up with, say, me holding down the Down arrow
• Any kind of formatting or syntax checking is basically useless when working with included files that depend on external declarations

But most importantly, it doesn't have vim keybindings :)

[FellippeHeitor]

Oh, by the way, I have now found a slight typo in the "OPTION _EXPLICIT" Wiki page in the example code given:

OPTION _EXPLICIT
DIM myVariable AS INTEGER
myVariable = 5
PRINT myVariabe

In the last line the variable name is misspelt.  So, if someone has a bit of spare time (but hardly a pressing issue!).

The typo is intended here. Look at the line right below the code sample:

QB64 IDE Status will show: Variable 'myVariabe' (SINGLE) not defined on line 7

[FellippeHeitor]

Thanks Qwerkey to all of you guys who took time to listen to our first episode! We're excited and looking forward to producing more, and your feedback is really important!

[Qwerkey]

You may well be excited, but I imagine that sra. Heitor is saying "Oh não! Mais tempo naquele computador estúpido!".

[FellippeHeitor]

She's pretty cool about it 🥰

[Dimster]

Nicely done, very informative - think there should a link in the wiki to this podcast.

[Dav]

Very nice Podcast!  Looking forward to the next one already!

- Dav