[PharmhausParticipant]

VS Code is great, but the debugging support is limited which makes it useless for me. For  C# and JS I got it to debug as expected but not so for any other language. That being said I like it far better than Atom and it contains some of the features which are only available for VS Enterprise or Professional.

[PharmhausParticipant]

The version I am using is the one from the christmas demo, just copied the ted2.exe and bin/ted2.exe.

Mark said somewhere that one could use ted1 also esp. because it has the debug buttons.

[PharmhausParticipant]

Well, one could use the same approach like in many functional programming languages where null is not a valid state for a variable if not stated explicitly.

e.g.

Monkey

Local a:MyClass = null ' Compile Error because null is not allowed Local b:MyClass Option = None' OK, Option type can have no value Local v:MyClass Option = Some(new MyClass())' the operation 'a' might return nothing (None) '( Or use Maybe<T> / Either<T> / Just<T> / Neither intead of option) If a = null then ... ' Error "a" cannot be null

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Local a:MyClass = null ' Compile Error because null is not allowed   Local b:MyClass Option = None' OK, Option type can have no value   Local v:MyClass Option = Some(new MyClass())' the operation 'a' might return nothing  (None)   '( Or use Maybe<T> / Either<T> / Just<T> / Neither intead of option)   If a = null then ... ' Error "a" cannot be null

This has two major benefits: It is very easy to eliminate unnecessary null checks (because null is not allowed) and it is also very easy to distinguish between a result that is null and a failed operation that returns nothing because null <> None.

Here is one of the many article on this matter : *click*

[PharmhausParticipant]

Talking about Ted2, the hotkey I am missing a lot is CTRL + D to duplicate a line.

Visual Studio also has the nice feature to copy the whole line when you press CTRL + C and nothing is selected.

I also showed monkey2 to someone and he disliked the fact that the [x] for closing documents does not stand out little more. It’s pretty much atom like but for a person not used to might be worth making it a little more visible. It is also not noticable which file is currently opened which could become a little confusing when the project grows larger.

[PharmhausParticipant]

Well, for local variables it should be a compile error but for fields this is indeed absolutely unexpected.

[PharmhausParticipant]

Monkey

Function Main:Void() Local a:Foo a.Hello() End

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Function Main:Void()   Local a:Foo   a.Hello() End

The Variable is ‘clearly’ not initialized. The C# way of throwing a compile error because you try to call a method on a non initialized variable would be more reasonable to me.

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