OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria vs. C and OOP

• Posted by ChrisBurch2 <crylex at freeuk.co.uk> Jan 05, 2007
• 691 views

don cole wrote:
> 
> 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:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> 
> sequence holiday
> 
> holiday="christmas" 
> 
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> to
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> 
> sequence holiday."christmas"
> 
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> 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

Hi Don

OOP is one of the most horriblest (?) and over hyped aspects of programming I've
come across over the last few years - I struggled with Delphi for years until
I came across Euphoria (no disrespect to Matt et al - I have the utmost
respect for their grasp of Euphoria and OOP in order to implement it.)

Euphoria doesn't need it (IMHO)

The above example is relatively simple though (I hope!)

Holiday is an object

Holiday.text would be a property of that object, so you could say

Holiday.text = "Christmas"

and later

Holiday.text = "Easter"

Holiday could also have another property called date, so

Holiday.date = "25/12/2009"

Holiday could also have function associated with, so

Holiday.print - could print out all the other Holiday properties.

Also, each property could have another prperty associated with it

so

Holiday.date.print would print out the date

And so on.

Get a free copy of delphi from somehere if you want to experiment, but to
my mind, I just got unnecessarily bogged down with classes and properties -
Euphoria was like a dream in comparison. As far as I'm concerned, all the talk
of
properities and classes etc, and defining variables should all be add ons, 
and not a requirement for using euphoria.

I'm not saying don't progress, just don't change the base.

Chris