But I miss a lot a nice For Each sugar... This:

ForEach MyVar(key) 
{ 
    Write !,key 
} 

Is much better to read than:

Set key=""
For 
{ 
    Set key=$Order(MyVar(key))
    Quit:key=""

    Write !,key 
} 

I mean... We write code like this all the time, right? Locals and Globals are so important to us... Why not giving them some sugar?

Of course that the ForEach command would only try to $Order the last variable just like it works today with $Order. So instead of:

Set key1=""
For 
{ 
    Set key1=$Order(MyVar(key1))
    Quit:key1=""
 
    Write !,key1

    Set key2=""
    For 
    {
         Set key2=$Order(MyVar(key1, key2))
         Quit:key2=""

         Write !,$C(9),key2 
     }
} 

We would have:

ForEach MyVar(key1)
{ 
     Write !,key1
     ForEach MyVar(key1, key2) 
     { 
          Write !,$C(9), key2 
     }
} 

Much clearer and nice to read, don't you think? And if you really want to be fancy:

ForEach MyVar(key: value) 
{ 
    Write !,"The value for key ",key," is: ", $Get(value)
} 

Where value could be <UNDEFINED> if that local/global node ends up having no value defined (that's why the $Get on value).

I know it would be a lot of work, but, on a side note, It would be awesome if we could open up our virtual machine and give people the tools necessary so the community could implement other languages for our virtual machine. We could move our VBScript and TSQL implementation to this new, open, framework and have people use it as templates to build their own languages or language improvements.  I know building a compiler is not an easy thing and there are things that you have to hammer on the code. But it would be an interesting challenge and investigation project.

Here is my wish list (from the most important to the most desirable):

- There were more frequent releases. Why waiting months for the next release... If there is a small harmless feature that is good to go, why not publish it on a new release? 

- Support for seeing the other (.cls of CSP, .cls of a CLS, .int of a MAC, etc.) and the ability to jump to a relative location inside the INT: zNameOfMethod+10 (for instance).- Support Javascript syntax coloring on CSP

- Support for javascript files with long lines (such as the "min" version of javascript frameworks such as jquery or bootstrap). Atelier will mark these files with an error flag even though they are ok.

- Support for opening Management Portal of a specific server connection

- Support for using Studio wizards of a specific sever connection

- Support for seeing a CSP page (like when we click on the globe icon and the CSP page opens)

- Being faster

- Support for the Add Relationship wizard to classes

- Support for the other wizards such as add index, add property, add method, etc. These wizards are very good for beginners that don't know CDL or COS. I always use these wizards on my Sales demos because people then realizes that it is very easy to use our technology.

- Better testing with common source control plugins like GitHub, specially when developers are using a mix of operating systems (windows, linux and mac). There are many problems with CRLF x CR and character encoding. When the source is uploaded from a Windows machine into GitHub and downloaded on a Mac machine, it will synchronize with the server that will then change the CRLF to LF and make Atelier think that I touched the source when I didn't. The git diff then will add all those files to my pending GitHub list of files and I will have to upload them again to GitHub for them to disappear. I have only solved this problem by making all developers work with the same combination of encoding (utf-8) and end of line character (LF) on all platforms. My suggestion was that Atelier should be forcing UTF-8 and LF on all platforms to eliminate this problem.

- Support of a plugin to run SQL queries on the database with SQL syntax coloring, code completion etc. like WinSQL or Squirrel does. I mean: We could have Atelier installing some plugins that any developer would need. The same goes for UML editors that could allow us to see the application model more clearly.

I wish I could save an article to read it later... Looks like the subscription is not working. I subscribed to some articles to read them later and they don't show up on my "My Content > My Favorites".

Kind regards,

AS

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