OpenEuphoria

Re: 3.0.3

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> May 11, 2007
• 876 views

Robert Craig wrote:

> Juergen Luethje wrote:
> > maybe you can add something like the following to 'misc.e':
> > }}}
<eucode>
> > global constant
> >    FALSE = 0,
> >    TRUE  = not FALSE
> > 
> > global type boolean (object x)
> >    if integer(x) then
> >       return x = FALSE or x = TRUE
> >    else
> >       return FALSE
> >    end if
> > end type
> > </eucode>
{{{

> > 
> > I think it would be pretty useful.
> 
> It would be useful, but if we add it now,
> it will trigger error messages in a lot of existing code,
> since boolean, TRUE and FALSE are already declared
> as globals, and used, by many programs that currently include misc.e.

I see.

> Maybe we should instead create a new "standard types" include file.

Oh yes, I think that is a good idea.

Regards,
   Juergen