OpenEuphoria

Re: more lobbying

• Posted by Tom Eklöf <darkspace at SUNPOINT.NET> Sep 04, 2000
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>    [snip]
>    sequence s1,s2
>    s1 =3D s2 =3D {"Plea",se.."}
>    [snip]

Your last example leaves me completely puzzled. Even though it's fairly o=
bvious that you just forgot a quote from the second element, I don't unde=
rstand what you're trying to do there.
Are you going for an approach of something like this pseudoEu:
{s1, s2} =3D {"plea","se"}
which would set s1 to "plea" and s2 to "se."

Or are you working on the perlish assumption that the assignment op alway=
s returns its own left-value?

Or am I just not playing with a full deck here? ;)


And now that I'm at it, I might as well throw in my $.02:

--Regular expressions.
I'm still an advocate for this. Just rip the bugger out of the perl packa=
ge if you have to ;)
Seriously speaking, regexp would be a great functionality for Euphoria. L=
et's take over some territory from Perl!
 mean, think about it, with a powerful regexp system and simple UN-QUIRKY=
 grammar, Euphoria would beat the crap out of Perl any time of day.
No more having to produce (or read) code like:
defined($params[1]) && do{$params[1] =3D~ /^PARAM=3D.*/i ? do{(@subparams=
[1] =3D (&split_params($params[1], '\=3D'))[1])}:do{print "ERROR: PARAM E=
RROR $params[1]\n";goto FROB;};};
And other such drivel, which I and many others regularly produce just to =
keep our jobs ;)



--Function subscription and slicing.
This has been talked about before, I know.
I just fail to understand the difference between writing

temp =3D returns_a_two_element_sequence(zok)
puts(1,temp[1])

instead of just going
puts(1, returns_a_two_element_sequence(zok)[1])
The other value is going to get thrown away anyhow, so why not allow us t=
o do it quicker?


--Goto
(Don't snicker, I'm dead serious ;)
Really, it IS useful in certain situations. Sure, they _can_ be handled i=
n more "elegant" ways, but it gets complicated. A LOT.




Allright, now I'll just lie right here and wait for the flames to rise.



--Tom "Mr. Wizard" Ekl=F6f


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