[Gambas-user] Question about Subst() syntax

[Steven Lobbezoo]

Hi,

I did once, but got into those kind of problems, so I stopped using it.
Just for very simple select statements, for the rest I construct
directly in my program.

I consider that anyway subst can only be used in simple situations.

Steven


Le samedi 01 mars 2008 à 02:35 +0100, Benoit Minisini a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I plan to limit the Subst() instruction to nine substitutions, for 
> optimization reasons. Does anyone use Subst with more than nine 
> substitutions?
> 
> I will do that for 3.0, and this will break 2.0 programs that use more than 
> nine substitutions.
> 
> The other proble is that the '&XX' syntax is ambiguous. &1 up to &9 is not, 
> but &10 can mean the 10th subsitution, or the first substitution followed by 
> a zero character. This was a stupid design.
> 
> Maybe the future syntax will be &1 up to &9, and then &(10),&(11),&(12) and so 
> on... Or maybe not, as I find that not really beautiful...
> 
> Beware that the substitution syntax is used by the database methods Edit(), 
> Exec(), Delete(), Find() too. So they are concerned by the syntax change.
> 
> Please tell...
>