Re: Archives
- Posted by petelomax 1 month ago
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I'm curious what those "sophisticated features" might be.
Not trying to put words in anyone's mouth, but for me there are several additions to Phix that didn't really pan out:
nested routines, closures, regex, structs, classes, and OOP. They didn't really harm it, but they didn't improve it either.
Admittedly I was driven by and probably couldn't get 100% on rosettacode without, but that's not an excuse.
Two that actually worked were dictionaries aka associative arrays, and by far the best and most useful, "for in".
Maybe I should include apply/filter/columnize/join/join_by/substitute/tagset/shorten/unique/scanf/get_text and
perhaps elapsed/timedate, but they're more "useful additions" than "core language".
Oh, get_routine_info() has also proved very useful, and that is pretty much "core level".
I'm also insanely proud of p2js, but I have to admit it hasn't actually been properly "useful" yet...
