Re: New switch/case idea
- Posted by kinz Apr 04, 2009
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Matt, in BASIC language, there is DO...LOOP cyclic construct. And real semantic of this construct is not "looping" but cycling. So DO means start of cycle - and means strongly. It is old good tradition of BASIC world. Yours "do", which is equivalent to a curly brace in C-like languages, looks just as nonsense. English "loop" in program texts smells as jargon and never was translated as "petlja" in Russian computer literature. It is cycle here, in Russia.
Again, you're not understanding the english. Looping and cycling are pretty much the same thing. My russian is far worse than your english, so I won't tell you how to translate, but you're obviously not understanding the english correctly.
Matt, first of all, let's talk about specific English words, not about English as a language on the whole, OK?.
Then, if your Russian is far worse than my English, and my English is not zero, so your Russian is not zero too and we can try to talk almost in Russian.
Let's try?
Loop in Russian - petlya, you know.
Cycle in Russian - cykl, almost same as in English, came from Latin, I believe.
So word "cycle" is much better for English-Russian dialog and for pogram texts than word "loop", "cycle" is an international word.
Petlya is a bit dark, gloomy word in Russian, sometimes it means the instrument for suicide. In computer Russian literature, it is very rare, used just to describe the magnetic tape way.
Loop in English doesn't mean an instrument for suicide, as far as I can find in my dictionaries. But it sounds a bit funny for Russian ear. We have some word, which means a bare head of penis, it gives good rhyme with "looping", sorry.
Do you understand Russians and loop/cycle relations a bit better now?
Very well, so, I never will recommend the "loop do" construct in future Euphoria.
Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz@peterlink.ru
