OpenEuphoria

Re: Last Element Notation

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Sep 20, 2003
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Jim wrote:

> Juergen,
>
> I do like your ideas of using fin and last as keywords instead of $.
>
> The problem there is backwards compatibility.

Unfortunately, this is true.
I had the impression, that neither '$' nor 'end' was 100% convincing to
the community. And also nothing else has been found up to now, where all
say "Very great, that's it!". So I just wanted to throw some additional
ideas into the discussion.

> I have used last as a variable
> name in many files, so using that as a keyword might break things. fin as well
> (see, fin = File INput).

My hope was, that at least 'fin' is so uncommon, that it's rarely used.
Now I know better.

> Of course, thats a minor issue (is it really so hard to change all fin to
> fin_ and all last to last_ (or even fin___ and last___)?).

I don't know. I think it could be annoying. A poweful tool for searching
and replacing would be very helpful, though. For Windows, I can
recommend e.g. the program "InfoRapid Search & Replace"
     http://www.inforapid.de/
(Freeware for privat use)

> Still, it may
> prove just enough to prevent the addition of a new keyword into the language.
>
> jbrown

Yes, I see. Thanks for your comments.

Best regards,
   Juergen

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