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-* MBAS: The Ximian MonoBasic compiler

-

-	MBAS is a CIL compiler for the MonoBasic language, an extended 

-	version of VisualBasic.NET. It's based on the MCS compiler

-	and still in heavy development, though many language features are

-	already supported.

-

-** What's working

-

-	- Classes, Fields and Methods. Properties are still being worked on

-	- Module definition and Sub functionality (TODO: Function's)

-	- Namespace Import, so can you reference, instantiate and call external 

-	assemblies

-	- Parameter passing between Sub's. ByVal and ByRef parameters are being worked 

-	on.

-	- Delegates

-	- Object creation

-	- Events - to a limited extent. You can declare a Class-Field as 'WithEvents' 

-	and dynamic events (i.e AddHandler MyButton.Click, Button1_OnClick). Please 

-	beware: just after committing the code, I discovered that the handler field 

-	in the AddHandler call is case-sensitive, a remnant of mBas' mcs heritage)

-	- Statements supported are 'If..Then..Else' , 'While..End While' and 

-	assignment statements. Simple operators (+, -, *, /, >, <, =) should also 

-	work. Other statements (For..Next, etc.) should be quite trivial to 

-	implement.

-	

-	A lot of this stuff is implemented rebuilding proper expressions and 

-	statements on top of the classes provided by mcs (look at the grammar - 

-	mb-parser.jay - and compare it with cs-parser.jay, if interested).

-	

-** TODO-list

-

-	At this stage almost every element of the language must be still checked for 

-	conformance to MS'implementation. Help is particularly needed for those areas 

-	I know little of (mcs internals are still quite obscure to me). I'd like to 

-	implement class properties, the missing statements, exception handling, 

-	structures and actual event support (not necessarily in this order). Once we 

-	have all this stuff set up and reasonably bug-free, more work could be done 

-	on helper functions and Object-vars handling. 

-

-** Questions and Answers

-

-Q: Why introduce a new language MonoBasic, not VisualBasic.NET?

-

-A: MonoBasic includes VisualBasic.NET and just adds addtionally 

-functionality.
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