Microsoft Visual Basic Feature Improvement Suggestion

Below I listed some of the improvement I would like to have in Visual Basic, I hope Microsoft will add these improvement in the next version of Visual Basic or maybe just by service pack or just give the answer to these matter (problem).

SHR and SHL (Bit Shifting)
This is very important function and C++ has them (<< and >> operators), we (VB developers) are simply jealous and we need them.

64Bits Integer value
Currency is good but we need something withour a fix 4 decimal digit

AND, OR, XOR operands can be done without error on all numeric value data types.
We can't use these operand on all data, why? especially Currency and Decimal (variant) data type, also we want the integer divider (\) can be use for all numeric value data type.

Decimal data type is declareable
Make the Decimal data type NOT as a Variant, make it a true declareable data type. Why it is a Variant anyway? Is it because of the current CPU/FPU does not support this big number? Is it because VB internally need to convert the value using string operation? If it is true then make more of it, such as 30 digits numeric data type or more digits if necessary, because you never know who need them (I do .. ;p).

Signed and Unsigned numeric value
We (VB developers, again) want to have both signed and unsigned numeric value data type!

I believe the wish-list above are not only mine, many VB developers require that features (improvement).
Note: most of the list above seem like only focus on numeric value data type, aren't they? Honestly I am doing my own arithmetic coding compression, but VB is too slow to handle this math calculation, especially without those features I listed above.


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