Re: new version of visual basic is going to be released


I believe that the strategy here is to gently morph VB.NET into C#, so
that all those VB.NET diehards will end up programming in C#, but
will still be able to say that they are 100% VB.NET.


"Ken Halter" <Ken_Halter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jonathan Wood" <jwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> That article is about Visual Basic.NET. It's hardly Visual Basic.
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>> Jonathan Wood
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>
> Are you kidding? The line below plugs right into VB6 and runs!
> <kidding> So, they've added curly braces now? Oh joy. Nothing like
> making C# look even more attractive eh? <g> If you have to deal with
> syntax like that, might as well deal with a case-sensitive language
> too, I s'pose.
>
> Dim Countries = _
> { new County { .Name = "Palau", .Area = 458, .Population = 16952 }, _
> ... _
> }
>
> .....fwiw, I wouldn't allow something like the line below in an app.
> Period. Might as well be (String As String) or (Integer As Integer).
>
> Function F(Country As Country) As Boolean
>
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> Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB - http://www.vbsight.com
> DLL Hell problems? Try ComGuard - http://www.vbsight.com/ComGuard.htm
> Please keep all discussions in the groups..
>


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