Re^2: Paid for crap

blockquote>VB (pre dotNet anyway) doesnt have a return statement, and normally relies on goto on err type logic for exception handling.

I don't know VB but I find this very surprising; 25 years ago my good ol' Microsoft MSX BASIC 1.0 had subs (that you'd call with GOSUB) and RETURN statements. Of course you couldn't name the subs, you had to rely upon line numbers :)

10 CLS
20 INPUT "choose a number", A$
30 IF A$>10 GOSUB 100
40 if A$<5 GOSUB 100
50 PRINT "you typed ", A$
60 END 
99 REM the following 2 lines are a subroutine!
100 PRINT "you must enter a number between 5 and 10"
110 RETURN
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Wow, I couldn't imagine I remembered that sh*t so well, should have been 20 years :)

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Re^3: Paid for crap by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jan 26, 2007 at 13:05 UTC
Return doesnt return anything in the sense of a modern language would use return, it returns control to the next execution point. The moral equivelent of the MS basic 'return' would be 'exit sub' iirc. But this isnt the site for this discussion :-) --- $world=~s/war/peace/g	[reply]
Re^4: Paid for crap by wazoox (Prior) on Jan 27, 2007 at 12:35 UTC
The moral equivelent of the MS basic 'return' would be 'exit sub' iirc. But this isnt the site for this discussion :-) But IIRC there is a BASIC parser for Parrot, right? Isn't it the right site to talk about the marvels that we may do using Parrot? :)	[reply]