Old Basic-New Basic

Question

Bot new computer, Windows7-Won't load my old GW-Basic disk- Trying Small Basic

a=5

b=cos(a)

TextWindow.WriteLine (b)

Response:  Unexpected token (found

What's wrong?  Thanks

Answer 1

There is a space between WriteLine and (b)

You must remove the space for it to work, like this : TextWindow.WriteLine(b)

Answer 2

You must remove the space for it to work...

AshkoreDracson, this is completely untrue! Small Basic accepts blank spaces almost anywhere!

Even   TextWindow     .      WriteLine    (       b      )    is valid!!!

In SB, most of its operations and properties demand an object (or class) typed before them.

For example, TextWindow is written before WriteLine(), because the method/operation WriteLine() belongs to the class/object TextWindow.

In the  BasicAl's case above, all mathematics methods belong to the class Math. So, b=cos(a) has to be b=Math.Cos(a).

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Answer 3

Oh sorry, i didn't noticed that, the first thing I saw was the extra space, and i never tryed to insert a space between functions, so I tought it was because of that. :)

Answer 4

You also must use Math.GetRadians so that Small Basic can process the sine easier!

For example, for your code, you would have to write it like this:

a = 5
b = Math.Cos(Math.GetRadians(a))
TextWindow.WriteLine(b)

Does this help?

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