VB 10 thoughts (part 4)

re: VB 10 thoughts (part 4)

Morgan — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:06:41 GMT

Here's what I would like to see.

There is one thing I can't get over in VB and that is that AND & OR doesn't short circuit.

I use ANDALSO/ORELSE _EVERY_ single time, Could I have an Option ShortCircuit ON?

There is 2 things I would like to get rid of in VB, the line continuing character _ is plain annoying. It will be so even more with LINQ. And can someone tell me why its considered a compilation error if I end the line with ,_ Why cant the IDE insert the space char?

I would also like to see the the Dim keyword being optional or removed, Let was ditched in VB7.

re: VB 10 thoughts (part 4)

Ernesto — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:04:07 GMT

How about a StreamReader.ResetToPrevousLine method in the StreamReader class. This would allow us to stop the read operation and insert new data prior to the line just read then we could reset the buffer and continue to read where we left off at.

Example:

n_Line = StreamReader.Readline

If n_Line = "Line to stop at" Then

temp_File = writer.WriteLine("Appended Text")

StreamReader.ResetToPreviousLine

End If

temp_File = StreamReader.ReadLine

' The output to the temp_File would be:

Appended Text

Line to stop at

re: VB 10 thoughts (part 4)

Morgan — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:00:02 GMT

#15 There is only one logical one, ISO 8601 which is what everyone use in my country :) (Maybe an Option DateFormat ISO8601? )

re: VB 10 thoughts (part 4)

Matteo Bagattini — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:13:00 GMT

16 and 17 have my vote, 16 would be extremely useful.