OpenEuphoria

Re: Hi

• Posted by Ken Furlong <stjohn15 at ENTER.NET> Jan 16, 1999
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Daniel Berstein wrote:

> At 02:33 p.m. 16-01-99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi, my name is Ken Furlong, I just downloaded Euphoria and signed up for
> >the mailing list.  I thought I'd take a minute to intoduce myself.  I'm
> >just an ameture programer who aspires to be a pro someday.  I've had a
> >little experience in QBasic and Borland C++.
>
> Welcome Ken! If you're patient you'll be facinated with Euphoria. Please
> try to clean the knowledge you've got from Qbasic. As a former Atari
> basic programer (when I was a kid) I do have a nostalgic feeling about
> it, but as a programming language it sucks.
>
> I must warn you that just yesterday a new alpha version (2.1) of Euphoria
> was released, you'll see lot's of very specific & technical post during the
> following days regarding bugs (I hope not), further enhancements and the
> like. Don't be intimidated with such messages, this mailing list *is* the
> right place to post all your questions about Euphoria, no matter how stupid
> you may thing they are.
>

I think the version I donwloaded was just V2, but I'm not sure.  About bugs
though, I think I found one on Win98, I e-mailed RDS about it - hope it doesn't
cause any big problems.

> >I had a question, in QBasic and C++, you can name blocks of code so that
> >you can go to them from, say, an if-then statment instead of writing the
> >whole thing out under the if-then.  I think in QBasic you use Gosub.  I
> >was wondering if there was an Euphoria version of the Gosub command.
>
> As a matter of programming philosophy Euphoria doesn't have a block
> labeling mechanism, you must structure your algorithm to avoid this
> situations. Feel free to post any code snippet you're having troubles to
> structure.
>
> Always remembers that an algorithm that requires this "special" exit states is
> usually not the best algorithm. Certainly there will be ocassions where such a
> labeling mechanism can simplify things, but at the cost of redability and
> conceptual un-clarity.
>

Could I write my own procedure and then use it like gosub except of course for
including the variable values in the ( ) when I call it.  Wouldn't this work
basically the same way with an if-then?

i.e.  -

if var1 = 1
then my_procedure(*,*,*)

etc.....

Thanks!
Ken Furlong 




> Regards,
>         Daniel   Berstein
>         daber at pair.com