I've suggested these before and I would imagine Ruud has seen/thought of these as well. But at the risk of turning KiXtart into a mish-mash of C and VB I'll throw these out again anyway.

As a C programmer yourself, I know you already appreciate the "handyness" of autoincrement. And in a very small way, from a performance standpoint, are key targets for any kind of script engine optimizing

$count++ ; automatically increment by 1
$count-- ; automatically decrement by 1
$count += 10 ; same as $count = $count + 10
$count -= 10 ; same as $count = $count - 10

I can't count how many times i've koded this:

$index = $index + 1

all the while grinding my teeth and tensing my shoulders and biting my tounge ... but - Ruud obviously has a master plan for KiXtart and he certainly hasn't steered us wrong yet.

But I would love to get yours and the boards thoughts in regards to these ideas (borrowing/mixing syntax from other languages) or if KiXtart should stay true to it's BASIC roots ?

-Shawn