Re: Handling Structured Memory
On 13 Nov 2002, at 16:38, irv at take.maxleft.com wrote:
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> On Wednesday 13 November 2002 03:05 pm, Kat wrote:
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> > > If anyone does not understand what I am saying here, please let me know. I
> > > can post a typical example.
> >
> > Please post it. I stopped using Pascal partly because i couldn't nest var
> > records at any place i wanted. If you want restrictions in a program, that's
> > *easy* to add. It's getting the language to *allow* things that is
> > difficult!
>
> Gladly. But this has nothing at all to do with restrictions that I want to
> impose on Euphoria. It does illustrate some of features that should be
> expected
> in any language, but which do not exist in Euphoria:
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> I have a client who sells items on a time-payment plan.
> To keep track of who bought what, who owes how much, etc. he needs the
> following data for each of a couple thousand customers:
>
> for each customer, filed by ssn,
I recommend you do not use ssn, because in the early days, 1950's and
1960's, there were duplicate numbers issued, especially thru the military.
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> That's enough for now. Hope my Pascal isn't too wrong. And remember, this is a
> simple one to convert to Euphoria, because it uses so many near-identical
> structures. I'm usually not that lucky.
How about a structured example that Eu can't do in sequences or EDS?
Kat
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