XSharp

4 Letter abbreviations of keywords

(FUNC, WHIL etc).

-

Yes 11

-

Yes 11

Follow the conventions of Xbase++

Yes 11

&& as single line comment character (alternative syntax for //)

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Yes

-

Yes

Yes

Yes

* at beginning of line as comment character

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

ALIAS (->) operator

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Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

AND, NOT, OR, XOR as alternatives for .AND., .NOT. etc

-

-

-

-

-

Yes

ARRAY type, Including Array literals & NULL_ARRAY, including missing elements

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Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

BREAK statement

-

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

BEGIN SEQUENCE .. RECOVER .. END SEQUENCE

-

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

CLIPPER calling convention (requires USUAL support)

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Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

CODEBLOCK type

-

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

DATE type, including NULL_DATE

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Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

DATE and DateTime literals

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

DEFINE statement with optional type clause

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

FIELD statement, and recognition of Field names in stead of locals or instance variables

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Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

FLOAT type, including Float literals & the /vo14 compiler option

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Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

FOR .. ENDFOR as alternative for FOR .. NEXT

-

-

-

-

Yes

Yes

FOR EACH as alternative for FOREACH

-

-

-

-

-

Yes

GLOBAL statement

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

IIF() expression and the /vo10 compiler option

Yes 7

Yes 7

Yes 7

Yes

Yes

Yes

Late binding

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Yes (with /lb+)

Yes (with /lb+)

Yes

Yes

Yes

LPARAMETERS statement

-

-

-

-

-

Yes

MACRO compiler

- 13

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

MEMVAR, PUBLIC, PRIVATE, PARAMETERS statement , including undeclared variables 14

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Yes

-

Yes

Yes

Yes

PSZ Type, including NULL_PSZ and (pseudo) PSZ conversion functions (String2Psz(), Cast2Psz()

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Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

PSZ Indexer

n/a

1 based

0 based

1 based

1 based

1 based

NULL_STRING

Yes 9

Yes 9

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

SYMBOL type, including Symbol literals & NULL_SYMBOL

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Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Statements before the first entity in a source file

-

-

-

-

-

Yes

USUAL type, including NIL literal (1,2)

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Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes 15

TEXT Command

-

-

-

-

-

Yes

Special features

Yes

Yes

Yes

VOSTRUCT and AS/IS syntax (10)

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Yes

Yes

-

-

-

UNION and AS/IS syntax (10)

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Yes

Yes

-

-

-

Untyped Literal Arrays

-

Yes 8

Yes 8

Yes

Yes

Yes

Missing types allowed

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Yes 3

Yes 3

Yes

Yes

Yes

Missing arguments in function/method calls MyFunc(1,,2)

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Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Pseudo functions

Yes

Yes

Yes

PCount(), _GetMParam(), _GetFParam(), _Args()

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Yes 4

Yes 4

Yes 4

Yes 4

Yes 4

SLen()

-

Yes 5

Yes 5

Yes 5

Yes 5

Yes 5

_Chr()

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Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

AltD()

-

Yes 6

Yes 6

Yes 6

Yes 6

Yes 6

PCall, PCallNative

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Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

CCall, CCallNative

-

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Other information

Generated Function class name

Functions
X$<ModuleName>$Functions
for static functions and globals

<AssemblyName>.Functions (DLLs)
<AssemblyName>.Exe.Functions (EXEs)
<AssemblyName>.Exe.$<ModuleName>$.Functions
for static functions and globals