Visual Basic needs more credit

[mikepwilson]

"with" isn't particularly unique or interesting. There's a lot of functionality in a few lines. But you can stack up languages like cordwood that have lambdas, currying and/or templating features that would reduce the footprint of that code far more. It's awesome to be excited about a language. Lord knows I've spent most of the last 40 years that way. But do yourself a favor, take this post and put it in a calendar item marked 5 years from now and come back and look at it then. Visual Basic has come a long way since the VB3 days. But it's a very very long way away from winning awards for elegance.

[Simon_Whale]

No as you would of written it like this VB.NET Version

New image With
{
.height = height
}

C# Version, in the C# version the With Keyword is ommited

new image { height = this.height }

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[PIEBALDconsult]

Yes. And I really don't like that Extension Methods require the using directive. Very powerful are aliases though. Recently I used an alias to resolve a namespace conflict, rather than have globall:: scattered throughout some code:

namespace PIEBALD.Data.MySql
{
using MySqlClient=global::MySql.Data.MySqlClient ;

public sealed class DatabaseInfo : PIEBALD.Data.DatabaseInfo<MySqlClient.MySqlDbType>

You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

[Kenneth Haugland]

Don't know...

[Jorgen Andersson]

Then catch the DB errors and rethrow the rest.

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[Richard Deeming]

No it wouldn't.

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[Richard Deeming]

Colborne_Greg wrote:

this message is spam

OK, at least you're being honest about it. As requested, I've reported your message as spam. Happy now? ;P

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[Colborne_Greg]

Advertising your other post is spam

[Colborne_Greg]

I'm not using SQL

[Colborne_Greg]

So now instead of with I need this. And I would have to write this over and over and over

[Colborne_Greg]

VB New image with {.height = height} C# New image {height = height} second one fails

[gardnerp]

It's just not that elegant to have two separate try/catch blocks that completely hide the error and never handle it. And everything you have there can be done in C# as well.

[Colborne_Greg]

The unique part about the with; is that it is simple - easy to learn, little if no problems to overcome just by using the structure.

[Richard Deeming]

No, posting links to unrelated sites or commercial products is spam. Telling a user that you've already replied to their comments in another post on the same site is not. Falsely accusing other members of posting spam, however, would count as abuse. :suss:

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[Colborne_Greg]

the try catches were not suppose to be illustrated as a bonus, and a laziness on my part, but intentional with how my code works

[Colborne_Greg]

In my defense I got this exact post 3 times without validating you only posted it once

[Richard Deeming]

Colborne_Greg wrote:

second one fails

No, it doesn't. https://dotnetfiddle.net/J0N7Mm[^]

using System;

public class Program
{
public static void Main()
{
int height = 100;
var image = new Image { height = height };
Console.WriteLine("The image's height is {0}.", image.height);
}
}

public class Image
{
public int height { get; set; }
}

Output: The image's height is 100.

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[Colborne_Greg]

damn

[OriginalGriff]

The problem is that "people with less skill" assume that a "ooh shiny" language feature is cool at all. With is a PITA - it doesn't improve readability, it obfuscates it slightly and just makes it slightly shorter to type.

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[Jorgen Andersson]

What's the problem?

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]