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# VB6 - Visual Basic 6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_(classic) \
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC
BASIC = Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
> At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're
> designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
> Don't have any expectations that anyone will use it, unless you hook up with
> some sort of organization in a position to push it hard. It's a lottery, and
> some can buy a lot of the tickets. There are plenty of beautiful languages
> (more beautiful than C) that didn't catch on. But someone does win the lottery,
> and doing a language at least teaches you something. \
> _Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)_ \
> _Creator of the C programming language and of Unix_
---
## Press
Visual Basic 6 Renewed to Run on Windows 8 \
https://www.infoq.com/news/2012/02/vb6_supported_on_win8
---
## Complete VB6 Grammars
ANTLR4-based Grammars
https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4/tree/master/vb6
https://github.com/uwol/vb6parser \
https://github.com/uwol/vb6parser/blob/master/src/main/antlr4/io/proleap/vb6/VisualBasic6.g4
Grammar Zoo: http://slebok.github.io/zoo/index.html
http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Parser-operator-Difference-td4675788.html
---
## Expression Parsing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator-precedence_parser
---
## CodeProject Articles
Crafting an interpreter Part 1 - Parsing and Grammars \
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/10115/Crafting-an-interpreter-Part-1-Parsing-and-Grammar \
Visual Basic 6.0: A giant more powerful than ever\
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/710181/Visual-Basic-6-0-A-giant-more-powerful-than-ever
---
## Misc
**Grako** (grammar compiler) is a tool that takes grammars in a variation of EBNF as input, and outputs memoizing (Packrat) PEG parsers in Python. \
A generator of PEG/Packrat parsers from EBNF grammars. \
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/grako/
**TatSu** is a tool that takes grammars in a variation of EBNF as input, and outputs memoizing (Packrat) PEG parsers in Python. \
https://pypi.org/project/TatSu/
GOLD Parsing System \
http://goldparser.org/engine/1/vb6/index.htm \
http://goldparser.org/about/comparison-parsers.htm
http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/technologies/VisualBasic/#download
https://tomassetti.me/how-to-write-a-transpiler/
The vb2Py project is developing a suite of conversion tools to aid in translating Visual Basic projects into Python.\
http://vb2py.sourceforge.net/index.html
http://vb6awards.blogspot.com/2016/04/microsoft-update-or-open-source-vb6.html
---
## VB6 Named parameters
```vb
Function foo(Optional val1 = 1, Optional val2 = 2, Optional val3 = 3)
MsgBox "val1: " & val1 & " val2: " & val2 & " val3: " & val3
foo = val3
End Function
Private Sub Form_Load()
MsgBox "foo returned: " & foo(val3:=4)
End Sub
```
## VB6 Dot notation (x.y)
Access to members of
- Modules
- Classes, forms, controls
- Types
Types of members
- Data members
- Member functions
- Member subroutines
- Properties
```
module.variable
module.function
module.subroutine
module.enum
module.type
object.variable
object.function
object.subroutine
object.property
```