I’ve been toying with the idea of generalized “pseudo-object syntax”, which would essentially be a form of syntax sugar.
It would allow passing the first parameter of a function call with the method syntax, f.i.
In addition to several fixes and improved error detection and messages (thanks Alexey Kasantsev), the DWScript SVN version now includes string concatenation improvement for the common “s := s + …” case.
Here is a highlight of recent changes on the SVN side of DWScript:
DWScript includes a debugging facility, in the form of the IDebugger interface. The TdwsSimpleDebugger component implements that interface and can be used to simply surface the events.
I recently bumped on a post by François on FieldByName performance, and was bit surprised by the magnitude of speedups reported by Marco Cantu in a comment: