1. Re: Future features of Euphoria
Firstly, I want to repeat the KISS plea! When I tried Euphoria for the first tim
e about a year ago, I was immediately
impressed by its clean syntax, elegant simplicity combined with very good expres
sive power, and above all, by its
obvious rubustness. All that in less then 1 Mb of space, unzipped! (For comparis
on, I have just installed a new version of
Delphi - admittedly much more powerful animal - and I spent all day yesterday de
ciding what I can live without to get
back the required 200 Mb...)
Future features? My wish list is not that long, get out your pencil, Rob. Somewh
ere near the top is presently:
Parameter passing by REFERENCE: I prefer reasonably detailed factoring of my def
initions whenever overhead costs
of it are tolerable. But often the only way to achieve it , since Euphoria does
not even allow routine nesting, is to set up
external variables in which the values are transferred - clumsy, slow and wastef
ul.
High resolution timer: preferably down to microseconds. All the tools are alrea
dy there, ports (thanx, Jacques) and
interrupts; just a little bit of competent assembly is required, anyone out ther
e..?!
Multi-line comments: something like the usual /*...*/, or (*...*), or perhaps mo
re in the euphorian spirit comment...end
comment, or even note...end note, to save a few keystrokes? It is a real pain to
be forced to repeatedly
comment/uncomment, line by line, acres of code just to test few alternatives.
Richer and fast(er) set of graphic routines and elements: several line densities
, line and surface patterns, selectable
drawing modes (mov, or, xor, and, not), arc segment, etc.
Enough for one day?
end rave Jiri
