OpenEuphoria

Re: mainly syntax

• Posted by Pete Eberlein <xseal at HARBORSIDE.COM> Feb 17, 1998
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Hello everyone,

[FOOBAR]

Well, I can't be sure where or when this originated, but I know it started
out with the acronym FUBAR.  This stands for "fouled up beyond all
recognition" (or f**ked up, depending on your level of vulgarity).  It was
quickly applied to computer programming, and in the quest for creative
variable naming conventions, "foo" and "bar" started showing up for
arbitrary variable names and programming examples.  Yeah.

[END OF SLICE]

It would be nice not to have to retype the name of a sequence just to get
a slice up to the end.  mysequence = mysequence[2..length(mysequence)]

[APPEND]

Same type of problem here.  mysequence = append(mysequence, newthing) gets
a little tedious.  I like the suggestion for mysequence.append(newthing)
because it's closer to OOP and connecting methods to data.

[The tyranny of compare?]

What's wrong with compare?  Compare is neccessary because using =,<,> on a
sequence compares each element of a sequence individually with each
element in another sequence.  This works great for a replacement algorithm
in this line of code:  s = s + ('X'-'x')*(s = 'x')  -- this makes all
occurrences of 'x' into 'X'

[OOP]

I would like to use the discipline of OOP with Euphoria.  It could be
possible with a preprocessor, I think.  Virtual procedures and functions
would be fairly easy to implement now that we have routine_id and
call_proc.


Later,
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