In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, kmonsx wrote:

[quote="Jon Williams (Parallax)"]

We think we've done this, and it's probably going to remain as is for some time as we haven't had any requests for additional features (most of the updates we've made the last few months have come from our own use as a tool)
Hi Jon.
 

I assumed you guys had a long list of requests and were filling them as time allowed!  There's been at least a few times that I said, "darn, I wish I could do this....."

 

IF.....THEN.....ELSEIF...ENDIF was really needed -- glad to see that one go in! Especially because you can have blocks of code, instead of just a label.

 

One that springs to mind quickly is the ability to have multiple conditions on the same line of code for an IF statement, in C it would be something like

 

if ((variablea == 5) && (variableb < 57)) {//do something here}

 

The code gets awkward when you need a couple IFs in a row.  Plus, it's hard to read.

 

Also, a lot of your operators require VALUES, and won't take variables instead.

 

There are also a couple places in the Online Help where the author says, "this works just like the assembly instruction xxx except that....." etc.  Especially because its basic, you should never assume any knowledge of assembly --- if the users knew assembly, they wouldn't be using basic.

 

Keith

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