OpenEuphoria

Re: Wishlist

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Jun 27, 2001
• 531 views

On Wednesday 27 June 2001 19:05, kbochert at ix.netcom.com wrote:

> >And as Carl pointed out, there is a definite problem with the
> >seq += "a",  

> The wordiness I was trying to address was not the 'append', but
> the redundant 'seq'. My way is a failure; Is there another way?

Not that I'm aware of. 

> >>7-- File-local definitions should override globals

Sorry, I completely misread this. You're right. 

> If I cant have types, I still want names.

Couldn't agree more. Unique names that are tied to the sequence they 
index, so that you can re-use the same names to index other sequences.
If only one set were allowed per include file, that would be ok.

> >>17-  Automatic 'Result'
> >
> >I'm not sure I understand the advantage this has over simply
> >putting 'return 3.14' as the final line in the function. Please elaborate.
>
> This is another minor 'lazy-typist' wish. I was noticing the large number
> of functions I write that start off:
> 	function foo ()
> 	integer Result
> 	Result = 0
> 	...
> and thinking how nice it would be if the common 'Result' were built-in.
> Pretty minor!

Ok, I understand now. 

Regards,
Irv