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bfwolf
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Posted: 09:56pm 24 Sep 2025
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  phil99 said  
  Quote  I just find the block-identified by indent hard to see on the screen especially if I need to make a major change in the middle of some multiple condition set of statements.

MMEdit can help you with that. On the left it links each Sub, Do, For, If with it's correct end point.


Yes, but thank God BASIC's syntax doesn't depend on indention!
AFAIK FORTRAN was as awful in the past - don't know if more recent versions still are?

Indention should help reading!

There is one tool, where i accept indenting as part of the syntax: 'make':
'targets' start at the 1st column - actions indented by at least 1 tab/space
 
Gizmo

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Posted: 10:49pm 24 Sep 2025
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  Mixtel90 said  No, please....
MMBasic is BASIC. No BASIC accepts := as anything other than a syntax error. If people want to program in a language that uses := then they can, but BASIC isn't that language. It isn't C, C#, C++, Python2, Python3, COMAL, COBOL, Lithp or anything elth either...

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Yep, agree.
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PhenixRising
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Posted: 07:12am 25 Sep 2025
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  phil99 said  
  Quote  I just find the block-identified by indent hard to see on the screen especially if I need to make a major change in the middle of some multiple condition set of statements.

MMEdit can help you with that. On the left it links each Sub, Do, For, If with it's correct end point.


It has lots of gems, such as the xref/list for variables  
 
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