Re: Rob: Q: Euphoria 2.6
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Mar 29, 2005
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Vincent wrote: > Now that Euphoria 2.5 is out, what new features can we look foward to > in Euphoria 2.6? Or perhaps you are planning on skipping all the way to > 3.0? I have a long list of minor issues to look at, but I'm still open to suggestions for some major features. I may look into threads in more detail. Hayden McKay wrote: > I'd like to see some structure support for Euphoria since when dealing with > the Windows API we need to use structures. Also I would like to see the '^' > (carrot symbol) used to define pointers... > > eg:.. > > integer Value > ? ^Value -- displays the address of "Value" rather than the value. I'm opposed to C-style pointers and structures. Programming in a world of values, is fundamentally cleaner than programming in a world of storage "locations" that hold values, where the values occupy a certain number of bytes in a certain format. I would never want to give you the address of a Euphoria variable. Regards, Rob Craig Rapid Deployment Software http://www.RapidEuphoria.com