[Gambas-user] Wiki: DO doesn't answer

[Benoit Minisini]

On Thursday 30 March 2006 17:47, Eilert wrote:
> Benoit Minisini schrieb:
> > On Wednesday 29 March 2006 12:39, Eilert wrote:
> >> I wanted to translate "DO" into German, but the page doesn't come,
> >> neither in English nor in German.
> >>
> >> Anything wrong with that page?
> >>
> >> Rolf
> >
> > I fixed it. The problem comes from a '<=' in the example that should be
> > quoted, otherwise the wiki interprets the '<' as a markup that is not
> > closed... A sort of bug :-)
> >
> > Regards,
>
> Ok, thank you. I translated DO.
>
> Then I found WHILE has a loading error, too.

OK. Fixed...

>
> And now there is a question of mine:
>
> In the BASIC manuals I've got here (PowerBasic or VB for example), the
> syntax of block commands like loops or IF etc. is written somewhat more
> in detail.
>
> VB does it this way:
>
> DO [{While|Until}condition]
> 	[statementblock]
> 	[Exit Do]
> 	[statementblock]
> Loop
>
> Do
> 	[statementblock]
> 	[Exit Do]
> 	[statementblock]
> Loop [{While|Until}condition]
>
> Then they add a "Remarks" table listing the parts of the structure:
>
> Part		Description
>
> Do		Must be the first... etc.
> While		does this...
> Until		does that...
> bla...
>
>
> PB does it this way (better in my eyes):
>
> Function
>
> DO/LOOP defines a group of commands repeated until a certain condition
> is true
>
> Syntax
>
> DO [{WHILE|UNTIL}expression]
> 	.
> 	.
> 	.
> 	commands
> 	[EXIT LOOP]
> 	[ITERATE LOOP]
> 	.
> 	.
> 	.
> {LOOP|WEND}|{{WHILE|UNTIL}expression}
>
> Explanation
> ...
> now there is a bit lengthy explanation with a lot of examples trying to
> show every and each possible way of using it.
>
>
> Anyway, what would you say if in the Wiki we would try to make the
> explanation for the loops and IF and SELECT things a bit more like that.
> What I mean is, not only 1 line of syntax but several lines including
> the end of the structure and the optional BREAK or CONTINUE? Maybe more
> examples etc.
>
> Bonsoir
> Rolf
>

Do it for one structure, and I will tell you if I find it good :-) and if you 
can do the same for the other structures.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini