OpenEuphoria

Re: upper()

• Posted by Jeremy Peterson <ptl99 at hotmail.com> Aug 13, 2006
• 678 views

> may have been a joke"
Well um yes...

>I think that advocating illegal behavior
>on a public mailing list is typically bad taste.
Well I don't.  It should be obvious that this is a intended to be a joke, and
most of you guys could do with a little humour now and then.

But jokes on this forum never seem to be appreciated, except by me and 1 or 2
others...

Take a look at this example from
http://www.listfilter.com/cgi-bin/esearch.exu?thread=1&fromMonth=6&fromYear=A&toMonth=8&toYear=A&keywords=%223.0+feature+request:+foreach%22

As you can see, nobody laughed at it.

>Date: 2005 Jul 13 7:41
>From: Dave Probert <zingo at purpletiger.com>
>Subject: Re: 3.0 feature request: foreach

Vincent wrote:
>> 
>> D. Newhall wrote:
> > >
> > >I think that the next release should have something new and useful to the
> > >languag
e.
--<snip>
> > > set to the next next element in "line". A consideration would be to
> > > optimize
expressions
> > >of the type "foreach obj in reverse(seq)do"
> > >
> >
> >Hi there... I don't think there needs to be any more loop methods. "while"
> >and
"for"
--<snip>
> >
> >Using UPX for EX.EXE and hardware floating point compiler flags, background
> >transpa
rent
> >icons, and a nice multitasking library & documentation dirived from Language
> >War's
> >Sched.e would make the nice addition for Euphoria 3.0.
> 
> >I'm looking forward to 3.0, I can't wait to try out the "Language War"
> >technique,
seeing
> >how much smaller EX.EXE is, and observe those new Windows icons on my
> >colorful
desktop
> >backgrounds.
> >
> >
> >Regards,
> >Vincent

>Sorry, gotta go with Vincent on this one - we really do need to have more
>>colourful
>icons for our desktop.

>Our programs will never be as good as ones written in the more complicated
>>languages
>without the colourful icons.  In fact I think Euphoria should drop many of >the
>
>current language features like - print, sprint, while, if, message_box, etc >in
>
>favour of having some extra functionality to provide better icon support.  

>Who needs other stuff anyway?

>:)
>Dave

>PS.  I actually vote FOR foreach - use it all the time in PHP and it rally
>>does save
>a huge amount of confusion - though mainly with associative arrays!

Hahahahahahahahahah! :)  Great joke Dave!

Jeremy