Re: Pass by Reference
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jan 04, 2015
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Don't get me wrong:
Simplicity is the power of Euphoria, as well as Pass by Value! which also makes Euphoria rapid and powerful from my point of view.
Pass by Value is a pure anti-bug weapon.
It just that other programmers might think different then me.
Yep. I feel that simple is good, but too simple is bad. In other words, you can have too much of a good thing. All things in moderation, etc.
In the past, RapidEuphoria was too simple, and that held it back. OpenEuphoria has taken steps to improve the balance, but I don't think anyone could reasonably disagree that there's still room for additional improvements.
Earlier, I didn't quite agree that PBR was one of these things, seeing that it was so easily emulated. Looking at dcuny's attempts to wrap wxWidgets in an object-oriented way though, I'm starting to move towards PBR being a necessary feature for OO. (Sure, you can get away with emulated PBR, but the lack of necessary syntax sugar makes things clumsier and introduces more room for programmer error.)
