OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria vs. C and OOP

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Jan 05, 2007
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jacques deschênes wrote:
> 
> I agree with you Bill, Euphoria should stay euphoria, not becoming,
> c++,java or whatever of the same.
> 
> Your exemple is a good one, but the use of strings for commands would
> slow down the execution a bit. Global constants could be defined instead for
> commands.
> 
> Improvement to euphoria should stick to simple guidelines:
> - minimize typing effort
> - reduce name conflict (improvement to namespaces)
> - reduce scope of variables (related to namespaces)
> 
> My yesterday suggestions stick to those guidelines and I agree with Jason
> concerning an enum decleration because it would reduce typing in accessing
> sequence elements by defining constants.
> 
> regards,
> Jacques Deschênes

So you want to change:

sequence holiday

holiday="christmas" 

to

sequence holiday."christmas"

For the point of saving typing. Is this correct?
Would holiday be changed later by 

holiday="easter"
 Or would another period be needed.

holiday."easter"?

Don Cole