I went ahead and started a new thread because there are multiple ones about this subject and I figured this would be the easiest way. Well I got some interesting news from one of the parallax engineers that is on the basic stamp yahoo group. Ill let you all read for yourself:
I wrote:
Does anyone know exactly when the new editor is supposed to be released? I'm part of the F.I.R.S.T. robotics competition and we only have a six weeks building period that started yesterday, and the default code for the control systems was written in Pbasic 2.5. None of us have anything that will tokenize the program because of the new commands. Does anyone have any early release, or know for sure when the new version will be released? Thanks!
Jon from Parallax replied:
Our goal is to have it released by the end of the month. We have a lot of testing yet to do (adding conditional compilation control so you can write one program that will work on the any BS2-family Stamp you have -- this is for advanced programmers) and the Help file has to be updated and recompiled. That is underway.
In short, we still have a bit of work to do. I can assure you that hundreds of FIRST robots have been successfully programmed with the existing syntax. I'm not sure who gave you a default program using 2.5 syntax because we haven't released all the details ... just hints here and there to keep our customers abreast of current developments.
Well, I went and looked at your program and found that it is, in fact, using 2.5 syntax. We must have sent an early version of the new compiler (sans new help and all features enabled) to the folks who run FIRST.
I MAKE NO PROMISES HERE ... but I will check with Engineering to see how early we can get a public BETA release. IF (and that's a big IF) we do, it will not include new help -- just a quick update of new additions.
> -- Jon Williams
> -- Parallax
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