Wish Truly global variables and subs.

Is it possible to implement truly global variables and subs? ie. Variables and subs that can be called from any other module, without having to prefix their names with the name of the module they were defined in.

So instead of having to use Main.Variable1 or Main.Sub1, you can just use Variable1 and Sub1 in any module.

Is this something that would be difficult to implement? Or is it the way that the Android architecture operates, that prevents a feature like this from being implemented?

Tom_707 said:

Is this something that would be difficult to implement?

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Not trivial but possible.

Tom_707 said:

Or is it the way that the Android architecture operates, that prevents a feature like this from being implemented?

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B4X programming language features have nothing to do with Android architecture.

Will it be added? Probably no.
I think that the benefits of such feature are minimal and are only relevant to small projects.

Why not this way:
Let say a BAS module is a only outsourced text parts of the main module.
The users can divide a too long code into different text snipplet. Each shown in a separate TAB.
Or the use can outsource text-parts, which already contain 100% error free code.
Now the compiler could re-import them into one big main module before start the compiling. In this moment they all are one file.

This needs no change in the compiler. Classes would not be touched by this. Ok, you would have to do a lot in adjusting your Auto-Syntax-Control.
I know this from my old basic dialect

This would also give us the chance to close TABs with code we do not edit at the moment, but of course should stay in the project.

at the moment you can simulate this in one file, with folding with #region

#region Import standard.bas
..the code
#End Region

#region Import Record.bas
..the code
#End Region

#region Import ConstDef.bas
..the code
#End Region

' and for comment folding sam multiline text help coment or note use:
#Region Txt note comment 1
#If txttxtnote12
note12
#End If

#If txttxtnote13
note13
#End If
#End Region



and, if nesessary, find the region in the search and in the tab: Modules