Re: ver4 keyword Conflict

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  • Posted by mattlewis (admin) Oct 03, 2011
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petelomax said...

I'm not sure what the fuss is about. It just means 

?tan(0.5)

would have to become 

include std/maths.e 
?tan(0.5)

Is that really such a deal breaker?

From the user's perspective, that's all it would be. There's quite a bit more involved in making tan something other than a built-in. Note that tan has its own OPCODE in euphoria IL code.

Jim mentioned making tan a machine_func. This would definitely be slower than what it is now. I'm not sure what you really gain by doing so, other than a sense of purity. Again, I haven't heard anyone ask why #puts# or #printf# or #?# aren't in std/io.e.

Matt

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