ha ha, Tedd. Another approach in a KISS model would be to have a separate instruction/keyword like PRINTV to use for printing variables. Still there's a lot of planning ahead, I think. ex PRINT Your age is PRINTV age Still there needs to be some way to print several spaces at the start or end of a message or to print punctuation marks or to print something and stay on the same line (like , and ; are used now in BASIC). Things to plan for, eh Brian? -Stu ( 'eh' <--- Part of my Canuck accent. ) On Dec 19, 2005, at 4:17 PM, tedd wrote: > -Stu: > > That's simple, he just uses PRINT "X" when he wants to print a > variable. :-) > > tedd > > >> Brian... >> How will your language recognize the difference between printing a >> message and printing the value of a variable if text messages don't >> have quotation marks? >> ex PRINT X >> Should this print the value of variable X or print the letter X? This >> feature was mentioned long ago but never heard your plans. Interested >> if you've planned something yet. In fact, will your language have any >> variables? Haven't seen any in your examples. >> -Stu >> >> >> On Dec 19, 2005, at 1:00 PM, <bheibert@...> wrote: >> >>> Not in my programming language that I am building >>> the syntax I use is PRINT whatever you want to print >>> no quotes >>> >>> Brian >>> >>>> From: "Dennis J. Fast" <dfast@...> >>>> Date: Sun Dec 18 18:49:07 CST 2005 >>>> To: futurebasic@... >>>> Subject: RE: [FB] Printing in the window I created >>> >>>> PRINT Hello World >>>> >>>> should be "Hello World" and is going to output as two numeric >>>> variables >>>> initialized to 0 and will look like: >>>> >>>> 0 0 >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: bheibert@... [mailto:bheibert@...] >>>> Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 4:19 PM >>>> To: futurebasic@... >>>> Subject: [FB] Printing in the window I created >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I have created a Window command (or statement) >>>> the problem I am having is when I have a command after the window >>>> statment >>>> the PRINT command seems to have no effect >>>> like I will type >>>> WIN 1 1 Hello >>>> PRINT Hello World >>>> >>>> and the Hello World does not go in to the window >>>> >>>> Brian >>>> >>>> PS: The way my code works it needs 1 1 or 2 2 or 3 3 >>>> to display the window that isn't a bug I don't think >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> -- >>> >>> -- >>> >> >> -- > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > http://sperling.com/ > > -- > >