OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria 2.5

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Jul 28, 2004
• 608 views

On 28 Jul 2004, at 18:40, Igor Kachan wrote:

> 
> 
> Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> ----------
> > From: Robert Craig <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
> > To: EUforum at topica.com
> > Subject: Re: Euphoria 2.5
> > Sent: 28 jul 2004 y. 7:53
> >
> > Bernard Ryan wrote:
> > > Rob:
> > >   When am I going to be able to spend my money
> > >   for version 2.5 ?
> > 
> > I'm slowly working away at it.
> > I took a big hit with the new "$" feature.
> > (s[$] = s[length(s)] etc.)
> > I thought it would be trivial to implement,
> > but it turned out I had to do a major overhaul
> > on all the subscripting code in the interpreter,
> > translator, and the new interpreter written 
> > in Euphoria.
> 
> What a problem, Rob?
> 
> Anyone can have that notorious feature just
> now and forever - do you remember:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> integer A_
> type sequence_with_length_A(sequence a)
>   A_= length(a)
>   return sequence(a)
> end type
> 
> sequence_with_length_A A_A
> 
> A_A = {}
> 
> ? A_
> 
> A_A = {1,2}
> 
> ? A_A[A_]
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> > I've spent a lot longer than I expected, and
> > I'm still not quite finished. I think the feature
> > is definitely worth it, but you shouldn't expect 
> > a release until September or October.
> 
> This feature seems to be like same notorious
> "conditional dynamic include" - I still can not
> find the 3rd dynamic lover to drink that notorious
> Russian bottle of vodka for solved problem ...
> 65 EU countries ... Where is that 3rd?
> 
> It seems to me, Derek will search & look for 
> the 3rd $-lover too ...

I tend to agree. That $ merely saves a little typing, "goto" would be serious 
improvement to program flow.

Kat