fxm, OK I read your article now. I missed that when I posted here. Very nice. Yes, you have provided what I was hoping to see; introducing the usage before the explanation. Thanks.

A next article coming soon (status 'in progress'): 18. How FB supports Sub-Type Polymorphism, demonstrated by Emulation very Close to Real Operating (article of 1 post) See Index page of tutorial / teaching / pedagogical topics (draft articles for documentation) Do you have particular requests arou...

Not a bad idea to collect information and opinions; it can help give a direction for the overall goals. Ultimately, the one doing the work (and the ones helping to support the work) make the final choice. I do recommend a small change first to get started. The most concise and obvious pull requests ...

JK, I am grateful for your understanding. Yes, I encourage you to keep working at it. You have shown yourself to be capable of building the fbc sources, understanding the code base to a fair degree, and the desire to contribute to the project. I am thankful. If I may be so bold, next step for you is...

With these further variations in how FBC could be built, should the -version switch be modified to reflect the switches and parameters used to build this particular version? maybe a verbose version of version? like '-version -v'? I'd like to see the actual repository commit ID part of the version i...

I think freebasic as a compiler should provide robust basic bricks , today dynamic wstring should be one of these bricks. it was what i was promoting 3 years ago, happy to see your implication on that subject. Bricks are good. It's a good place to start. It's disappointing though to look through th...

i did it the same way, step by step, working through the code for each statement, which needed to be changed. In the end it sums up to what you have right now as a pull request. That may be so, but it would be easier for both of us had the changes been made in incremental steps. Some of the changes...

Oops, I missed a step. %% tags with the html escaping only work for chm. I think I'd like to get rid of the html escaping and look at improving the fbdoc (wiki-> chm converter). Even though fbdoc doesn't know unicode, the wiki's UTF8 should be preserved through most of the string manipulations. Prob...

The fb wiki to chm converter doesn't handle unicode; escaping the characters using html is a work around. I'm not sure what the reason for the column tags are, maybe that's an older work around. %% ... %% code tags should format correctly in wiki and chm. I think this should be used instead of the c...

Just be mindful where the conversion is occurring. On windows, I have observed, that an editor might display UTF-8 strings with the characters (glyphs) you expect but the actual bytes in the file are really just ASCII chars >= 128. When fbc reads the source code, the translation of literals depends ...

Thanks marpon. I noticed that your uStringW class has handling for surrogates. And as far as I can tell fb rtlib mostly does not. There are some cases where it won't matter that fb-rtlib is only looking at the code units (e.g. 16-bit values on windows) rather than the whole code point (e.g. possibly...

True, I do want the code changed before it gets added. I have an idea of what I want to see for code paths, symbol naming, style, etc; basically, what I think will make the code easiest to follow and understand for the next developer (which very well might be future coderJeff!). There are 2 big conc...

dkl, saw your link to here from https://github.com/freebasic/fbc/issues/140 If we allow breaking some backward compatabilty, maybe this can work: '-e...' options for error checking code generation '-g' for debug symbol generation '-debug' for "debug mode" (really on...

Recently I've been working on adding this new syntax to fbc compiler: type T extends wstring '' or zstring '' data & overload declarations end type The intent is to create a UDT that has good interoperability with fbc's string types, most specifically WSTRING. We are probably still a ways off fr...

Joshy, thanks for the links to all your efforts. Your contribution to our community is remarkable.