Implicit Line Continuation in VB 10 (Tyler Whitney)

Channel 9 Interview: No More Underscores in Visual Basic 10!

Beth Massi - Sharing the goodness that is VB — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:13:22 GMT

I just posted a new Channel 9 interview on a nifty little feature which isn't so little when you look

No More Underscrores in Visual Basic 10

ComponentGear.com Feed — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:13:01 GMT

In this interview, Tyler Whitney , a developer on the Visual Basic compiler team, demonstrates how line

re: Implicit Line Continuation in VB 10 (Tyler Whitney)

Greg — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:22:52 GMT

Add in a reformat VB to new style would be great:

- Remove line contiuations

- Make each line of code a single line in the file (e.g., to fix old coding style of putting each argument to a function on a seperate line)

- Trim trailing spaces (don't trim the trailing line at end of the file - it's needed for processing source code with text filtering type tools)

re: Implicit Line Continuation in VB 10 (Tyler Whitney)

DarinHIggins — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:29:48 GMT

It's a minor thing, but it's +really+ nice to see this is finally coming to light in VB.

Looking forward to v10

re: Implicit Line Continuation in VB 10 (Tyler Whitney)

Scott Wisniewski — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:30:31 GMT

Congratulations. I'm thrilled that you guys were able to get this stuff in. It should be pretty. It sounds like you can Lucian did some awesome work.

re: Implicit Line Continuation in VB 10 (Tyler Whitney)

Scott Wisniewski — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:31:15 GMT

Congratulations. I'm thrilled that you guys were able to get this stuff in. It should be pretty cool. It sounds like you and Lucian did some awesome work.

re: Implicit Line Continuation in VB 10 (Tyler Whitney)

Tyler [MSFT] — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:38:04 GMT

Greg - that's a good idea. I'll remember that one when we start triaging ideas for Dev 11.

re: Implicit Line Continuation in VB 10 (Tyler Whitney)

Joe Guetzlaff — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:59:58 GMT

To be honest: I rather prefer implicit mechanisms to force coders to produce readable code. BTW, there is another line terminator in BASIC: the ever annoying colon.

I'm coding BASIC for 25 and RPG for 18 years now. While System i RPG definitely needs improvements, VB.NET coding is close to perfect with VS2008. Source code is not just a matter of typing, also a matter of readability after years.

re: Implicit Line Continuation in VB 10 (Tyler Whitney)

yannduran — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:43:16 GMT

Great work! I'd like to see an addition however. I'd like to be able to place my commas on the beginning of the next line, instead of at the end of the line.

Public sub Test(

firstParam as integer

, secondParam as integer

, thirdParam as string

)

'code goes here

End sub

Will there be ongoing work on this feature, or is it considered "complete"?

Thanks,

Yann

re: Implicit Line Continuation in VB 10 (Tyler Whitney)

Tyler [msft] — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:36:01 GMT

Hi Yann,

We are at the point where we are trying to limit the feature changes we make.

We probably won't go this direction because we (generally) prefer to decide whether to eat the line break based on what the last token on the line is. In this case there isn't anything about a type name token that suggests that an implicit line continuation should be implied. We'd also have to update all comma delimmited list processing sections of the parser to make it consistent.

For now, at least, I think we consider language facing changes around line continuation complete for this version.

Best regards,

Tyler

re: Implicit Line Continuation in VB 10 (Tyler Whitney)

John Moreno — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:52:09 GMT

Does the lin continuation allow comments?

as in

x = foo(

y, 'why not

z ' because

)

re: Implicit Line Continuation in VB 10 (Tyler Whitney)

Lisa Feigenbaum — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:57:43 GMT

Hi John,

Unfortunately, inline comments are not allowed at this time.

Thanks,

Lisa