Re: Handling Structured Memory
- Posted by Kat <kat at kogeijin.com> Nov 13, 2002
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On 13 Nov 2002, at 16:38, irv at take.maxleft.com wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 November 2002 03:05 pm, Kat wrote: > > > > 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: > > 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. <snip> > 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