Android Question is there a shortcut like ++ to add 1 to a same variable?

[omarruben]

sum = sum +1

sum++

 

[Sandman]

No.

Post a wish if you would like to have this.

 

[omarruben]

? thanks

 

[teddybear]

No, because it is basic langugae

 

[JohnJ]

i += 1 works in B4J. Most likely in B4A

 

[William Lancee]

@JohnJ No cigar.

 

[JohnJ]

@JohnJ No cigar.

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You are right, I was in the wrong language (Lazarus)!

 

[William Lancee]

Lazarus += Life

 

[Cableguy]

You can create a sub and call it when needed, something like:

Private sub add1(value as double)
return value +1
end sub

then declaring your variable in globals, you can just call add1(myvariable).

This is pseudo-code, may need tweaking or even not work as expected!

 

[imbault]

come on,
Basic radicalism should not be in B4x, even less in this forum...

i++ and i += 4 or i += j is so elegant and productive,

It should have been implemented in B4x since a while

Patrick

 

[Cableguy]

come on,
Basic radicalism should not be in B4x, even less in this forum...

Patrick

And you are addressing who?
I don't see anyone being "Basic Radical" in this thread, never saw it in the forum either...

 

[aeric]

There are people who use VB.NET and say VB6 is outdated. But there are people still prefer to VB6.
There are people prefer JavaScript and say Java is too verbose.
There are people only see shining new front-end framework like React but jQuery actually works very well without require Node or NPM.
It is hard to please everyone.

 

[kimstudio]

i =+ 4

i+=4?

To be frankly I don't mind to have ++, just because sometimes I port code from other languages to B4X and there are many "++/+="s, but I managed to convert it to i = i +.

 

[imbault]

i+=4?

To be frankly I don't mind to have ++, just because sometimes I port code from other languages to B4X and there are many "++/+="s, but I managed to convert it to i = i +.

You are right, with this heatwave in France, I didn't have very clear eyes this morning, i += 4 of course, corrected

 

[MrKim]

come on,
Basic radicalism should not be in B4x, even less in this forum...

i++ and i += 4 or i += j is so elegant and productive,

It should have been implemented in B4x since a while

Patrick

Disagree. I am a Basic programmer/ I have been programing for 30+ years/ I don't know what i++ and i += 4 or i += j means. I learn a lot here but struggle with all there is to learn. When looking for code that can help me the last thing I need is new commands from other languages.

And I do not find these things elegant and productive. I see them as obscure and non-intuitive.

 

[emexes]

new commands from other languages

PowerBASIC has INCR and DECR commands which are nice except for making the code less portable to other dialects of BASIC.

Also a heap of (reasonably) intuitive extensions like:

ASC(X$) returns first character value of X$, ASC(X$, 4) returns 4th character value of X$
CHR$(13, 10) returns CHR$(13) + CHR$(10)
Trim$(X$) removes leading and trailing spaces, Trim$(X$, ANY CHR$(13, 10, 32, 9)) removes leading and trailing CR, LF, spaces and tabs