On 06/28/2017 12:12 PM, Pierre Lepage wrote:
The solution brings a lot of hassle for customers of the LibreOffice suite whose work relies on the performance of StarBasic macros written by third parties. Macros containing code in error by the absence of a closing parenthesis suddenly cease to function. For this reason, the patch has not been released. Here I want to explore a transitional solution by getting your feedback first. This is to include in StarBasic options dialog accessible to the client a "StarBasic Pragma Strict" option (checkbox) by which the client consciously activates the solution (the patch that has not been published!). This check box would be available for a few years with a warning to prompt programmers and customers to require their programmer to correct their default code on the closing parenthesis.
Another option might be to have some form of such a pragma in individual BASIC source files, instead of as an IDE option. (And have the pragma enabled in the "REM ***** BASIC ****** Sub Main ... End Sub" boilerplate that is automatically present in a fresh source file.) That way, users could enable it for their own, new code, while (implicitly) keeping it off for non-conforming old, 3rd-party code.
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