Re: Chipmunk Basic arrays (Attn: Ron Nicholson)

On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:55:35 GMT, R.Nicholson wrote:

> On Sep 5, 8:00 am, "Auric__" <not.my.r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:49:47 GMT, R.Nicholson wrote:
>> > On Sep 4, 12:13 pm, "Auric__" <not.my.r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >> ...and on that subject, is there any way I can determine at
>> >> runtime that the program is running under Chipmunk?
>>
>> > Check the errorstatus$ string variable at interpreter
>> > launch.
>>
>> > My implementations of Chipmunk Basic return a version
>> > string or an author string from errorstatus$ at start-up
>> > (later, any error information is returned instead).
>> > You can then use fn version$() to return more OS and
>> > version information (big or little endian, which OS,
>> > whether graphics commands are available, and etc.)
>>
>> I think I'll have to do another almost-identical source file. All
>> current sources start with "option explicit" or equivalent, so
>> checking errorstatus$ or version$ would give me errors everwhere
>> *except* Chipmunk.
> 
> Would something like a non-nestable
> #ifdef _chipmunkbasic_
> #endif _chipmunkbasic_
> be useful for loading an interpreted Basic file?

Yes, depending on what the other BASICs are doing. I can't use it on 
PowerBasic, since the #ifdef format there is "#if %def(%pb_win32)", 
nor under QuickBasic, which IIRC doesn't even *have* #ifdef, but I 
*could* use it for FreeBasic, where the format is "#ifdef 
__fb_win__".

> Also, Chipmunk Basic has no equivalent to option explicit.

Well... I can always pull that out of the Chipmunk source. It's not 
required, just what I always do. (I avoid automatic variables, since 
the type's not automatic without DEFtype, another thing I don't use.)

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