[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Evolution (or the lack thereof) and future of the OpenEdge ABL

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Around 10 years Progress forgets it has a product like OpenEdge. Then suddenly for a few years so much new functionality comes into the ABL that it was hard to keep up with. And now the last two years the ABL looks forgotten again. I support Lievens' statement. Like people in previous posts who would like the (horrible) Elvis operator. The first annoying thing that comes to mind also has to do with shorter code. I would like have to possibility to NEW an object when defining it. Instead of: DEFINE VARIABLE oSomeObject AS Com.Package.SubPackage.Class NO-UNDO. oSomeObject = NEW Com.Package.SubPackage.Class (). I would like: DEFINE VARIABLE oSomeObject AS NEW Com.Package.SubPackage.Class() NO-UNDO.

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