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[majkinetor]

This is mini preprocesor that will allow you to use more commands in single line. This is an example script that I created just to present an idea, not as an final solution as it uses ; as delimiter (folowing bunch of languages) witch is currently used as a comment.

The rules
- put ; at the end of the command
- if space or tab are before ; it will be considered as a comment
- if ; is at the beginning of the line, it is also a comment

How to use
Execute Run.bat and select the ahk file you want to execute.

This is just a quick project some things are not handled at all, like ; in strings. If people are interested I can extend this.

[jonny]

I think it could work, but let's not get carried away. The semicolon has always been the comment character, and just because it's familiar to C (and C-esque language) programmers is no good reason to confuse long-time AHK users.

I propose using a two-character sequence that is both unique (that is, unlikely to appear in normal usage or strings) and syntactically clear. This would require no change in the parser, it could be handled by the preprocessor or by a subset of the preprocessor.

[majkinetor]

If you can find any other charachter that is easy to write, not currently used and not obfuscating !

If I take your advice and take for instance ## above script would look like

[PhiLho]

MsgBox % A_Index;
is probably OK.
MsgBox X=%x%; x := 2 }
or
MsgBox Z=%z%;
is bad... At least ambiguous. I expect everything up to the end of the line to be part of the message... Hey, semi-colon without space before is normal English typography, you will find it in many sentences that can be in a MsgBox...
So I stick to my idea of keeping sentence delimiters to expressions.
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

[majkinetor]

I wasn't thinking about this much. I just did it with ;
This is just a idea for more serious preprocesor.
I used SED now, witch is pretty criptic in its REs, but GAWK can be used for serious preprocessor - it is simple, and made for such things. I didn't use it now as it appeard that it doesn't have groups in reg exp, but I discovered that GAWK have it in gensub function.


The problems you mention with strings can be solved with escape charachter.
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[jonny]

[Demokos]

May be a single character to separate the commands would be sufficent, with a directive to say what is the character, like "#CommandSeparatorChar" and a character as specific as it is possible, like #, §, $ or £...

[PhiLho]

#CommentFlag...
Should probably made obsolete in v.2.
AutoHotkey cannot use high Ascii officially, as a Russian or a Turk will see other characters.
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

[Demokos]

[PhiLho]

I only reflect Chris' thoughts on the subject, something like "I shouldn't have made these commands".
Up to know, I didn't saw it much used...
The idea is to remove unused/useless/obsolete/deprecated commands, to reduce confusion and documentation size (thus number of stuff to learn).
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

[Demokos]

C'était juste une plaisanterie, Philippe !!! Apologies...
It was just a joke.

[PhiLho]

I wasn't offended, but I wanted to clarify. Indeed, I want to help Chris improve AHK, at least by providing ideas, at best by giving a hand for code.
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

[aydc]

I'm all for putting multiple codes to the same line.
It's ridiculous the way we're programming now:

a:=10
b:=30
c:=40
d:=a+b-c
e:=2*d

etc.etc....

Even simple scripts take thousands of lines. It should have been:

a:=10 // b:=30 // c:=40 // d:=a+b-c // e:=2*d

See how easy that is? Top languages like c++ and java can do this. Why not Autohotkey too, at least as an option.

[toralf]

Read the manual! It is available now:

[PhiLho]