Re: Important features not highlighted on main page
- Posted by petelomax Jun 27, 2017
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Is it reasonable to tell a curmudgeon that he can not be ornery?
I dunno.
I copied your revision to the wiki http://openeuphoria.org/wiki/view/compare_languages.wc
Everyone is invited to revise this page.
I just changed it to "cantankerous pernikety", which I think alliterates nicely with computers and programmers.
What OOP has is:
- dot notation
- identifiers that replace numerical sequence indexing
How practical would it be to add just these items to a language?
That might not be too difficult. In one afternoon, earlier this year, I added ORAC's version of dot notation subscripts to Phix (along with a flag to quickly enable and disable it).
As you develop a program in an OOP language you can't help but feel clever.
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
There is a "Diamond Lite" http://www.rapideuphoria.com/diamondlite.zip
Yes, I have a copy and previously decided that was the thing to have a play with, once I clear up what I'm (supposed to be) doing now.
No promises, but in the meantime a quick poll on suggestions for what would be the most helpful syntactic sugar might be in order.
I'll also invite a few rants on any specific shortfalls of or difficulties with using diamondlite as well, from anyone that's tried it.
Pete
