OpenEuphoria

Re: Issue of the week

• Posted by Hawke <mdeland at NWINFO.NET> Oct 06, 1998
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Carl R. White wrote:
> Maybe we ought to rename this thread "The Cyrek and Hawke Show"
> or something :)
if noone else needed a refresher/coaching/instruction on
overloading or redefining, and noone found this to be
interesting or intriguing in any way, then oopsie! apologies
for wasting ever so crucial bandwidth.

> Any clearer, or should we move to one-on-one e-mail?
yeah, actually it is...
the more i tinker with euphoria, the more i see how
truly elegant this creation of rob's is.  killer handling
of recursion (how many languages do you know of that can
handle a stack limited by only available RAM/HD space???)
and now i'm introduced to this neat new toy.  i don't
know that i would have ever found myself needing this toy,
since i never really program in this fashion, and thusly
don't really _think_ in that fashion as i'm flowcharting.
now that i know this toy exists, i'm thinking of more and
more ways that it could have made certain coding chores...
practically trivial actually.

example: this new thread on value()... i can see overloading
and/or redefining as coming in real handy at this point.

function oldvalue(object x)
   --how does this work again???
   return value(x) --is that right?
end function

function value(object x)
   if    find('*',x) then --multiply
   elsif find('+',x) then --addition
   --blahblah, subtraction, division, power(^), etc
   else return oldvalue(x) --it's just a normal value() call
end function

would the above be right as a potential pseudocode prototype
of what [whoever] was asking for???

--Hawke'