OpenEuphoria

Re: What's holding Euphoria back?

• Posted by Grape Vine <chat_town at HOTMAIL.COM> Jan 31, 1999
• 387 views

>>work and this will be for playing....~as i was saying~ Yes euphoria
>>could use some improvments...but not structures...thats going in the
>>wrong way...anyone else agree with me???
>
>I don't. There should be a way to "format" a sequence! Benefits cover
>several fields:
>
>        More redable code. This is an issue on Euphoria... one of it's
lait motifs
>is to provide a fast & flexible language easily maintainable in time.
>
>        Faster code. Less type checking = faster execution (specially
for several
>thousand items per sequence)
>
>
>Regards,
>        Daniel   Berstein
>        daber at pair.com
>
That I understand...But what type checking is done on a sequence except
when it is read from? The way i understood the setup of a sequence was
all in the way it was read...That should do all the type checking that
is needed...The section that reads the sequence should know if its a
text or numbers...I also under stat that writing to a sequence you need
to know the kind og data that is there..again the program should know
what kind of data it is...I guess I just dont get it...Just write the
program in a way that you dont have a tex funtion reading a number data
block and things should work(at least in my mind  it does...but then
again there is no gravity in my mind so its a judgment call..)...I do
like the idea of formated sequences...

sequence aaaa{
           number of people in the room
           each persons name
                {
                number of people in the room
                each persons name
                there age
                }
             }

the sequence is set up {XXX,{YYY,"name",ZZ)

when reading or writing i can a need for bounds on the age and maybe
on the length of there name...but setting is so only numbers are wrote
to XXX and ZZ is (to me) a waste of time...your not going to think that
some one who is 40 is a letter are you??? or some ones name that is
"john Q. plublic" has numbers for a name? there can be numbers in the
name...just remember every thing is ascii....

~random convergance of nero-electrical storms..(put my finger in the
light socket)

Grape Vine


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