OpenEuphoria

I see now that computer languages including become more and more alike through feature additions. Perhaps all languges will eventually look more or less like Python or Perl. Could it be just a metter of time before they all have each other features and the only difference would be syntax?

So, I propose we add that feature to EUPHORIA like this:

type enum with strings colors C_RED, C_YELLOW, C_BLUE, C_GREEN, C_BLACK, C_WHITE builtin function get_to_string_routine( sequence type_name ) color_names = get_to_string_routine( "colors" )

Also, APIs use bits in a single integer to turn features on or off. So, if we can have a way of making the enums be geometric with 2 then we can do even neater stuff.

Macros routines are things I see in C. Doesn't inlining make it redundant? Well, these little macros are often little things that use a routine's locals as globals. In C they can even be used to break or continue a loop that is not in the macro itself but in the caller of the macro. So, suppose we have something like this:

function big_function( sequence s, sequence t ) -- big routine 
     function little_macro()  
            s+=1 t=1 
            continue -- do we want this kind of thing?? 
     end function 
     . 
     . 
    while  condition1 do 
       if condition2 then 
             j = little_macro() 
       end if 
       . 
       . 
end function 

What do you think of this syntax?