Re: Not sure what this is(does)
- Posted by David W Schmitt <mordrake at JUNO.COM> Oct 05, 1996
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On Fri, 4 Oct 1996 22:02:56 -0600 Monty King <kinm at MAILHOST.CYBERHIGHWAY.NET> writes: >---------------------- Information from the mail header >----------------------- >Sender: Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS ><EUPHORIA at MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU> >Poster: Monty King <kinm at MAILHOST.CYBERHIGHWAY.NET> >Subject: Not sure what this is(does) >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hi everyone, I know this is probably a stupid question, but I >have >always beleived stupid questions to be the ones you never asked, so >here goes... > >In these lines of Euphoria code: > > > >for i=1 to 30 by 1 do--number of bitmap (+1 for indexing in sequence >purposes) >for poop = 1 to (length(tank[i])) do > for aloop = 1 to 29 do--length of bmp file > > a=tank[i][poop][(aloop)] > > >Which are out of Michael Packard's tank demo program, what does the >"(" and ")" >around the "aloop" in the last line do? I understand that a is an >atom, and >have read the ref manual twice again and even browsed the library >file, but >can't find a reference to using parenthesis as a selector. Is this >meaning >specify the atom inside of that slice? > >P.S. the rem lines are added in by me, and are not necesarily right, >I'm >just trying to figure out what all these lines do, I am wanting to >narrow >down his virtual window, which doesn't look to hard, just more lines >of code >to select particular slices, but have this BIG question. > >Thanks in advance. >Monty King > I'm (very) new to the list, and I was hoping you could tell me where i could get come .EX files to study... I have tried multiple times to write in Euphoria, but to no avail, so my last-ditch effort is to gather as much source as I can to analyze... The only Inet access I have is EMail, so if you (or if you know someone who would) could send me some code, or if you know a way I can get it via email, I'd owe ya big...