Re: : we need official libs
Lionel Wong wrote:
> There are too many include files for their purpose; the most popular seem
to
> be math libraries and sequence manipulation (seqman) libraries. Example
math
> libraries are Andy Montgomery's math.e, Jeff Zeitlin's math.e, Dave
Brock's
> math.e, Carl R. White's mathbag.e, etc... The troubles that arise:
> incompleteness, naming conflicts, and usage confusions.
I would expect that Euphoria would have a complete math library, either
built-in, or available through an include file supplied by Robert. A library
of common, useful stuff is also a good idea, although Robert has mentioned
that finding out what goes in such a list can be a bit difficult. The
inclusion if equal() is a good example.
The name conflicts have caused me a lot of grief. One of the reasons I'm
using an OOP system in Llama is to get around name conflicts. I know that
Robert is working on the problem, so I'm taking a "wait and see" approach
here.
On the other hand, I think that 'open market' scheme used for developing
libraries works out fairly well. People post what they think will be useful,
and if something is missing, someone either asks the author to add a
feature, or they create their own library. Sure, there's a lot of
duplication. But I think competition is a good sort of thing. For example,
CS:EE builds on EE and adds features that EE lacks.
-- David Cuny
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