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-* mbas: Mono's Basic.NET Compiler.
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+* mbas: Mono's VisualBasic.NET Compiler.
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- MBAS is a CIL compiler for the Visual Basic language, an extended
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- version of VisualBasic.NET. It's based on the MCS compiler
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+ MonoBASIC (mbas) is a CIL compiler for the VisualBasic.NET language,
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+ an extended version of Visual Basic. It's based on the MCS compiler
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and still in heavy development, though many language features are
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- already supported.
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+ already supported. See mcs/mbas/
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** What works
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
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* Classes, Fields and Methods. Properties are still
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being worked on.
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- * Module definition and Sub functionality (TODO: Function's)
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+ * Module definition and Sub/Function functionality
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* Namespace Import, so can you reference, instantiate
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and call external assemblies
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</ul>
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A lot of this stuff is implemented rebuilding proper expressions and
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- statements on top of the classes provided by mcs (look at the grammar -
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- mb-parser.jay - and compare it with cs-parser.jay, if interested).
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+ statements on top of the classes based on those of mcs (look at the grammar -
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+ mb-parser.jay - and compare it with cs-parser.jay, if interested), but some
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+ are getting deeply changed, to better conform to VB.NET semantics.
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** TODO-list
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At this stage almost every element of the language must be still checked for
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- conformance to MS'implementation. Help is particularly needed for those areas
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- I know little of (mcs internals are still quite obscure to me). I'd like to
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- implement class properties, the missing statements, exception handling,
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+ conformance to MS' implementation.
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+ We'd like to implement the missing statements, exception handling,
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structures and actual event support (not necessarily in this order). Once we
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have all this stuff set up and reasonably bug-free, more work could be done
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- on helper functions and Object-vars handling.
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-
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+ on helper functions and Object-vars handling.
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+
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+ Also work on the supporting library (we don't currently depend on it as much
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+ as MS vbc-compiled programs, but especially for late-binding scenarios we will)
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+ is surely needed: it's in mcs/class/Microsoft.VisualBasic/
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Rafael Teixeira