1. Re: A rant on an Ideal languages
Joel Crook wrote:
> button .hello -text "Hello, world" -command {
> puts stdout "Hello, world"; destroy .
>
>
> pack .hello
If Euphoria had an eval() statement, it would be a lot easier to create
scripting languages in it. I doubt that Robert would consider adding one,
though.
One thing I'd really like having would be a dynamic include file, such as
include_file( sequence fileName )
That way, you could convert the script into a Euphoria file, such as:
-- converted script
procedure button_command( object self )
puts( 1, "Hello, world!" )
destroy( self )
end procedure
constant hello = button()
set_text( hello, "Hello, World" )
set_command( hello, routine_id("button_command"))
pack( hello )
and then load it dynamically:
include_file("script.exw")
I'm not convinced that there's much demand for using packing to manage
widgets on the Win32 platform. If people convince me otherwise, I'll
consider adding it to Win32Lib. Most X-Windows based toolkits (Qt, GTK+)
have built-in support for packing.
-- David Cuny
