Re: Euphoria's strengths
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jan 12, 2015
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It's more difficult to do that with translated programs. And hasn't been implemented yet. We'd need to create a symbol table similar to what we have for routine ids. Possibly multiple, in order to allow access to non-file-level vars.
Which is why I said it's hard to do. It can be done, but it'd be hard. In addition to the variable_id() stuff, adding wildcard searching is probably not a lot of work.
But adding the ability to dynamically add and remove variables from the variable table on the fly? In a translated program? It can be done, it's just a lot more work.
And i know i am taking a speed hit, which shouldn't happen with native support in the core.
Actually, from the translator side, the solution would probably take the same speed hit (since instead of using native C variables whenever we can, we'd have to store everything in the variable table and do lookups all the time, same as what you did back in 2003).
