Newline Detection

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Samah

(Posted 2015) [#1]

So, at the moment, trans will detect multiline code by splitting on operators and commas.

Foo(1,
    2,
    3)
a = 1 +
    2 +
    3

I'd like it to also split on periods, so we can chain method calls on multiple lines.
Assuming Bar and Hello (and most likely World) do something like "Return Self", we could do this:

foo.Bar().
    Hello().
    World()

Instead of:

foo.Bar()
foo.Hello()
foo.World()

This would be amazing for creating factory/builder patterns.

Salmakis

(Posted 2015) [#2]

i also love to use self returning on "Setters" of objects, and i usually the have stuff like

New Gui_TextButton.SetPosition(x,y).AttachTo(MainWindow).SetText("Options").SetValue(New GuiValue().SetMin(0).SetMax(100)).SetSize(100,20).SetFlags(AUTOPOSITION | HOVERFX | CLICKABLE).SetVisual(New GuiVisualBorder)).SetValueModification(LEFTMOUSE, INCREASE, 1).SetValueModification(RIGHTMOUSE, DECREASE, 1)

wich can be really annoying, so i would also like to have such a multiline option

Samah

(Posted 2015) [#3]

@Salmakis: i also love to use self returning on "Setters" of objects

You can do this with properties too, since they can be called like methods

Class Gui_TextButton
    Field text:String
	
    ' getter
    Method Text:String() Property
        Return text
    End
	
    ' setter
    Method Text:Gui_TextButton(text:String) Property
        Self.text = text
        Return Self
    End
End

' these are equivalent, except the second returns itself and can be chained
t.Text = "hello"
t.Text("hello")