OpenEuphoria

Re: Include file such as 'compare.e' or 'find.e'

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at ya?o?.com> Aug 06, 2007
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Juergen Luethje wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> as Jacques has pointed out (and as we all know anyway  ),
> the functions
> - find_least()
> - find_greatest()
> - least()
> - greatest()
> - lesser()
> - greater()
> are not special math functions.
> 
> So I think we better should not put them in 'math.e', but rather in
> another new standard include file, say 'compare.e' or 'find.e',
> shouldn't we?
> 
> This file also could be the home of binary_find(), and other functions
> that might be created, such as find_all(), find_any(), find_word(),
> soundex_find(), ... ).
> 
> What do you all think? Yes or yes? 
> 
> Regards,
>    Juergen
Someone had suggested a new file named "e_misc.e" or some such...

I'm not very good at picking names, though, so I'll leave that to others.

--
"Any programming problem can be solved by adding a level of indirection."
--anonymous
"Any performance problem can be solved by removing a level of indirection."
--M. Haertel
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare
j.